Keys To The Kingdom · Linkin Park

158 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

MetalAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 128-142 and 144, and 3 more places -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
KEYS TO THE KINGDOM · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 17, 18, 22, 26, 30, 38 and 7 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 20 sections: 90 keep time, 13 are fills, 23 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-88.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
PART S6
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART N
PART O
OUTRO
12 groovesCFKIO+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Keys To The Kingdom?

185 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Keys To The Kingdom hard to play on drums?

41 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Keys To The Kingdom?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 17, 18, 22, 26, 30, 38 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED
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