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Numb · Linkin Park

EXERCISE 2 OF 20
Groove J -- Outro
22 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHJBKE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
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 ride, hi-hat, snare and floor tom.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
86/100

hi-hat through bars 2-84.

The beat

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.

    18               19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |---xx-----x-x---|---xx-------x---|
HH |xXxxXxxXxxXxXXxx|xXxxXxxxooXxXxxx|
SD |----------------|--------rrr-r---|
FT |xg--x---gg--x-g-|xg--x---gg--x---|
Numb -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 8-66 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 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?

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?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED