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Massive · Linkin Park

EXERCISE 13 OF 15
Play the whole song with the record
52 / 62 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 62 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCS1S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Massive on drums

62 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-38, silence through bars 39-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-62.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 19-22 and 31-38, and 3 more places -- 56.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-----x---x-----x-----xx|
BD |x-----x---------x-----x---x-----|
Massive -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 46 and 62.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-58 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Massive?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Massive hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Massive?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 46 and 62.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED