The Catalyst · Linkin Park

171 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-48 -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
THE CATALYST · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 54, 94, 98, 114, 122, 130 and 21 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 98 · LANDS ON BAR 99
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 122 · LANDS ON BAR 123 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 137-138 · LANDS ON BAR 139 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

171 bars across 14 sections: 107 keep time, 27 are fills, 5 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-48.

CHORUS
PART E
PART G
PART S8
OUTRO
14 groovesBEVGS8+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Catalyst?

135 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 The Catalyst hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 5 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Catalyst?

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 54, 94, 98, 114, 122, 130 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED
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