Fighting Myself · Linkin Park

114 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-16, 34-40 and 58-72 -- 29.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
FIGHTING MYSELF · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 33, 41, 57, 89, 97, 105 and 1 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 114
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 11 sections: 76 keep time, 7 are fills, 13 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-74.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBKAS1J+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fighting Myself?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Fighting Myself hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Fighting Myself?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 33, 41, 57, 89, 97, 105 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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