The Emptiness Machine · Linkin Park

146 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 3:10 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 45-51, 75 and 77-83, and 6 more places -- 41.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 184 BPM
THE EMPTINESS MACHINE · BARS 45-46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 52, 84, 92, 110, 118, 120 and 2 more.

LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 118 · LANDS ON BAR 119
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 120 · LANDS ON BAR 121 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 10 sections: 120 keep time, 8 are fills, 4 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-28.

PART C
BREAK
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
8 groovesGCS3DS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Emptiness Machine?

184 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Emptiness Machine hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 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 The Emptiness Machine?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 52, 84, 92, 110, 118, 120 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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