Final Masquerade · Linkin Park

71 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 3:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-25, 35-37 and 39-41, and 1 more place -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 82 BPM
FINAL MASQUERADE · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 14, 22, 26, 34, 38, 42 and 18 more.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BARS 42-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 9 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 9 sections: 29 keep time, 24 are fills, 3 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-10.

VERSE
PART S3
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJGBS8S3+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Final Masquerade?

82 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 Final Masquerade hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 10 sittings, about 22 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 Final Masquerade?

6 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 14, 22, 26, 34, 38, 42 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED
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