LINKIN PARK · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Lost

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-35, 49-57 and 74-82 -- 32.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
53/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 105 BPM
LOST · BAR 27

It is played on the hi-hat, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is the speed of the hand keeping time.

The whole song is 53 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 79 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

  1. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, hi-hat pulled back to quarter notes. This is the part to know by heart.
  2. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 79, 92 and 105 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does Lost use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, in 4/4 at 105 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 32.9% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 27-35, 49-57 and 74-82. The time is kept on the hi-hat to start with, and it changes 2 times over the song.

Is the beat in Lost hard?

34 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED