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No More Sorrow · Linkin Park

EXERCISE 23 OF 24
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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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No More Sorrow on drums

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.

28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
28/100

silence through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-37, toms through bars 38-49, hi-hat through bars 50-59 and toms through bars 60-71, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x---x-------x-----|
BD |x---x-----------x-------|
No More Sorrow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- F, I -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Bars 17-53 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 22-50 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 46-81 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
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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