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Rebellion [Featuring Daron Malakian] · Linkin Park

EXERCISE 24 OF 53
Join Part M to Chorus 2 (bars 45-47)
90 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M, CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS
PART H
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART T
CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFCHRB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 10
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rebellion [Featuring Daron Malakian] on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-11, snare through bars 12-26, hi-hat through bars 27-34, ride through bars 35-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-42, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 21-23 and 25-26, and 9 more places -- 30.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x--g----x--g|
BD |x----x--x----x--|
Rebellion [Featuring Daron Malakian] -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 16, 18, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 23-40 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 27-47 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 43-54 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Rebellion [Featuring Daron Malakian]?

130 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 Rebellion [Featuring Daron Malakian] hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Rebellion [Featuring Daron Malakian]?

8 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 16, 18, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED