No More Sorrow · Linkin Park

121 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 133 BPM, 5:27 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
28/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30-32 and 34-36, and 5 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 133 BPM
NO MORE SORROW · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 33, 37, 49, 57, 59, 71 and 2 more.

LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BARS 79-80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 9 sections: 54 keep time, 8 are fills and 52 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-48.

COUNT-IN
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesS9FICA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No More Sorrow?

133 BPM, in 6/4, 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 No More Sorrow hard to play on drums?

28 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 5:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 No More Sorrow?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 33, 37, 49, 57, 59, 71 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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