Somewhere I Belong // (Drop C#) · Linkin Park

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 3:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 23-25 and 27-29, and 4 more places -- 32.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 81 BPM
SOMEWHERE I BELONG // (DROP C#) · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 22, 26, 30 and 10 more.

LOOP · 81 BPM
BARS 12-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 8 sections: 40 keep time, 16 are fills, 2 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-37.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBNGS1T+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Somewhere I Belong // (Drop C#)?

81 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 Somewhere I Belong // (Drop C#) hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 Somewhere I Belong // (Drop C#)?

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 22, 26, 30 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
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