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

EXERCISE 16 OF 43
Groove N -- Part N
43 / 72 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Somewhere I Belong // (Drop C#) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-72.

The beat

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.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x--x-x--x--x|----x----x--x--x|
BD |x-xx-x--x-xx----|x-xx---xx--x----|
Somewhere I Belong // (Drop C#) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Verse and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 23-57 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-66 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 63-69 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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