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Talking to Myself · Linkin Park

EXERCISE 14 OF 35
Join Chorus 2 to Part F (bars 51-53)
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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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Talking to Myself on drums

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.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-37, silence through bars 38-44, hi-hat through bars 45-85, silence through bars 86-88 and toms through bars 89-96, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x---x---x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
Talking to Myself -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 44, 56, 60, 64, 66 and 1 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 -- C, D -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 25-56 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 49-64 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 65-78 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 78-97 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 93-108 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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.

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