Linkin Park - Faint · Linkin Park

91 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalPunk120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 30-37 and 52-59, and 5 more places -- 51.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
LINKIN PARK - FAINT · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 25, 29, 38, 46, 60, 62 and 4 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 90-91 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 10 sections: 67 keep time, 10 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-37.

PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
5 groovesGDLS1S9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Linkin Park - Faint?

135 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 Linkin Park - Faint hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Linkin Park - Faint?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 25, 29, 38, 46, 60, 62 and 4 more.

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