Sad ("By Myself" Demo 1999) · Linkin Park

28 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 1:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
28
LENGTH
1:05
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16 -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 103 BPM
SAD ("BY MYSELF" DEMO 1999) · BAR 9
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

28 bars across 4 sections: 18 keep time and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-16.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDS1CFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sad ("By Myself" Demo 1999)?

103 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 Sad ("By Myself" Demo 1999) hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 5 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

28 bars, about 1:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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