My December · Linkin Park

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 97% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-88 and 90-104 -- 96.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
MY DECEMBER · BAR 18
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 3 sections: 87 keep time, 1 is a stop and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-104.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My December?

100 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 My December hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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