Hit The Floor · Linkin Park

103 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 2:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-16, 34-41 and 60-75, and 1 more place -- 54.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 146 BPM
HIT THE FLOOR · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 8 sections: 81 keep time and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 84-103.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesBDS1S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hit The Floor?

146 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 Hit The Floor hard to play on drums?

45 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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