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Papercut · Linkin Park

EXERCISE 6 OF 30
Join Chorus to Part E (bars 20-22)
82 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART E
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART N
OUTRO
5 groovesBENS1SFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Papercut on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-70, toms through bars 71-78 and hi-hat through bars 79-115.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-14, 31-37 and 55-61, and 4 more places -- 52.3% 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---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-----x---x-|
Papercut -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 30, 54, 62, 63, 64, 77 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 62-79 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 75-112 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Papercut?

150 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 Papercut hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 Papercut?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 30, 54, 62, 63, 64, 77 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED