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Pushing Me Away · Linkin Park

EXERCISE 6 OF 14
Groove E
67 / 80 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, OUTRO
PART B
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pushing Me Away on drums

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 2-80.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-9, 18-24 and 26-32, and 5 more places -- 65.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--xx-x-x---g|
Pushing Me Away -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 2-12 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 18-57 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Pushing Me Away?

105 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 Pushing Me Away hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED