One Step Closer · Linkin Park

60 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 2:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 13-16 and 18-20, and 5 more places -- 50.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 95 BPM
ONE STEP CLOSER · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 3, 4, 12, 25, 42, 43 and 2 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

60 bars across 12 sections: 36 keep time, 10 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-39.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART L
OUTRO
8 groovesCELS1S2+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is One Step Closer?

95 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 One Step Closer hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 2:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in One Step Closer?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 3, 4, 12, 25, 42, 43 and 2 more.

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