Hands Held High · Linkin Park

84 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:03 of playing, on snare, floor tom and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 27 more places -- 48.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
HANDS HELD HIGH · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 6 sections: 62 keep time and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-34.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
OUTRO
4 groovesBS5S1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hands Held High?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Hands Held High hard to play on drums?

34 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

snare, floor tom and hi-hat foot. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Linkin Park drum parts

EVERY LINKIN PARK CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →