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, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45, 47 and 49, and 28 more places -- 23.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 184 BPM
THE EMPTINESS MACHINE. · BAR 47
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 84, 92, 110, 118, 120, 126 and 1 more.

LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 120 · LANDS ON BAR 121 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 126 · LANDS ON BAR 127
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 12 sections: 116 keep time, 7 are fills, 4 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-80.

PART C
BREAK
PART E
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHECIS4+4Fill 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?

50 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 39 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 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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.?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 84, 92, 110, 118, 120, 126 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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