Numb · LINKIN PARK

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

MetalAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-9, 24-30 and 48-63, and 2 more places -- 51.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
NUMB · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 17, 22, 23, 39, 64 and 1 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 9 sections: 67 keep time, 7 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-63.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
7 groovesEIFJS2+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Numb?

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 hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 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 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 Numb?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 17, 22, 23, 39, 64 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED
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