Numb by Linkin Park (cover) · it can sound otherwise

84 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:03 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and floor tom.

Rock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-39 -- 26.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
NUMB BY LINKIN PARK (COVER) · BARS 18-19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 83 and 84.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 83-84 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 7 sections: 73 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-62.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHJBKE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Numb by Linkin Park (cover)?

110 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 Numb by Linkin Park (cover) hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 8 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare and floor tom. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Numb by Linkin Park (cover)?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 83 and 84.

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