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Keys To The Kingdom · Linkin Park

EXERCISE 29 OF 42
Join Chorus 3 to Break 3 (bars 87-89)
107 / 158 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, BREAK 3
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
PART S6
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART I
CHORUS 3
BREAK 3
PART F
PART N
PART O
OUTRO
12 groovesCFKIO+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Keys To The Kingdom on drums

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

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, toms through bars 17-18, snare through bars 19-39, silence through bars 40-46 and snare through bars 47-54, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Keys To The Kingdom -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- K, I -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-64 -- 9 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-38 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-75 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 87-118 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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