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Points of Authority · Linkin Park

EXERCISE 3 OF 23
Groove C -- Part C
47 / 79 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
COUNT-IN
INTRO
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
6 groovesBCS1S3S6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Points of Authority on drums

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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
79
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, silence through bars 13-14, hi-hat through bars 15-30, silence through bars 31-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-79.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12, 21-27 and 29-30, and 6 more places -- 69.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x--x-xx------x|
Points of Authority -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 20, 38, 46, 62 and 70.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 19 minutes.
  2. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-63 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Points of Authority?

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 Points of Authority hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 7 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Points of Authority?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 20, 38, 46, 62 and 70.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED