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Heavy Is the Crown · Linkin Park

EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove B -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heavy Is the Crown on drums

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

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-21, silence through bars 22-24, hi-hat through bars 25-51, silence through bars 52-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-65, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-x---x---x-----|
Heavy Is the Crown -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, K -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part S4 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 32-84 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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