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The Emptiness Machine. · Linkin Park

EXERCISE 31 OF 31
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
PART C
PART E
BREAK
PART D
BREAK 2
PART I
PART E
CHORUS
BREAK 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHECIS4+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Emptiness Machine. on drums

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.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, silence through bars 29-36, snare through bars 37-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-92, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    47
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
The Emptiness Machine. -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- H, E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-49 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 48-93 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 100-146 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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