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Somewhere I Belong · Linkin Park

EXERCISE 1 OF 44
Groove B -- Chorus 2 (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
CHORUS 3
PART M
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBGMS1S+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Somewhere I Belong 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.

75 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
75/100

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|-g--x----x--x--x|
BD |x-xx-x--x-xx----|x-xx---xx--x----|
Somewhere I Belong -- 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 32 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 -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-42 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 43-57 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 53-66 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 63-69 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Somewhere I Belong?

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 hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 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 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 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?

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