QWERTY · Linkin Park

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 3:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-8, 28-30 and 32-34, and 4 more places -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 103 BPM
QWERTY · BARS 6-7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 47, 75 and 84.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 75 · LANDS ON BAR 76
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 9 sections: 62 keep time, 3 are fills and 10 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-26.

PART C
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDICMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is QWERTY?

103 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 QWERTY hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 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 QWERTY?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 47, 75 and 84.

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