Talking to Myself · Linkin Park

113 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 45-52 and 69-76, and 1 more place -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 124 BPM
TALKING TO MYSELF · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 44, 56, 60, 64, 66 and 1 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 14 sections: 74 keep time, 7 are fills, 6 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-27.

CHORUS
PART D
PART F
PART S5
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART L
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCDFIN+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Talking to Myself?

124 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 Talking to Myself hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Talking to Myself?

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 44, 56, 60, 64, 66 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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