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QWERTY · Linkin Park

EXERCISE 15 OF 28
Groove M -- Part M
64 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play QWERTY on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
65/100

snare through bars 1-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-11, snare through bars 12-13, kick and crashes through bars 14-17, toms through bars 18-26 and snare through bars 27-37, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    6                                7
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x-------|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|----x-------x-------x-------xxxx|
BD |x-------x-x---x---x-----x-x-----|x-------x-x---x---x-----x-x-----|
QWERTY -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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 -- D, I -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-51 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 67-76 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED