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Numb · LINKIN PARK

EXERCISE 4 OF 28
Join Part S2 to Break (bars 3-5)
60 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2, BREAK
PART S2
BREAK
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
7 groovesEIFJS2+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Numb on drums

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

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 2-84.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |---x--------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
Numb -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- E, I -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 3-12 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 44-81 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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