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Hit The Floor · Linkin Park

EXERCISE 10 OF 12
Groove E
83 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hit The Floor on drums

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

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

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-75, silence through bars 76-83 and hi-hat through bars 84-103.

The beat

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.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--x-------------|----------------|
HH |--o-o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |--x---x-------x-|x-x---x---------|
Hit The Floor -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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, D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 13-76 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED