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Linki · Berlin

EXERCISE 28 OF 50
Run N1 · Part N (bars 56-64)
100 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Linki on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-21, hi-hat through bars 22-30, ride through bars 31-43, snare through bars 44-45 and ride through bars 46-47, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Linki -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- I, L -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-25 -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 26-51 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 52-65 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 56-82 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 81-102 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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