Heavy Is the Crown · Linkin Park

84 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 2:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 25-27, and 7 more places -- 43.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
HEAVY IS THE CROWN · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 12, 18, 19, 20, 28 and 9 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 18-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 12 sections: 44 keep time, 15 are fills, 4 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-41.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART K
PART S9
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
8 groovesBEKS9S1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heavy Is the Crown?

128 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 Heavy Is the Crown hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Heavy Is the Crown?

3 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 12, 18, 19, 20, 28 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED
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