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Final Masquerade · Linkin Park

EXERCISE 8 OF 31
Groove B -- Verse
38 / 71 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE, PART A
VERSE
PART A
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Final Masquerade on drums

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.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
67/100

hi-hat through bars 1-15, silence through bars 16-18, hi-hat through bars 19-48, snare through bars 49-51, silence through bars 52-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-65, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xx-x-x---xx--x-x|
Final Masquerade -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Verse -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Verse -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 10-23 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 19-50 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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