Linki · Berlin

132 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Pop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-38, 40-43 and 46, and 7 more places -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 155 BPM
LINKI · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 15, 17, 19, 21, 39, 44 and 21 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 13 sections: 75 keep time, 27 are fills, 17 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-38.

PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART L
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesILCNH+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Linki?

155 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 Linki hard to play on drums?

49 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Linki?

9 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 15, 17, 19, 21, 39, 44 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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