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One Step Closer · Linkin Park

EXERCISE 11 OF 23
Run E1 · Part E (bars 9-12)
45 / 60 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play One Step Closer on drums

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.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 3-39, silence through bars 40-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-60.

The beat

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.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X-------X-------|
HH |--o-o-o---o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x--x--x-x--x--|
One Step Closer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-13 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-40 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 60 BARS ANALYSED