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The Emptiness Machine · Linkin Park

EXERCISE 3 OF 26
Groove D -- Part D
79 / 146 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT
PART C
BREAK
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
8 groovesGCS3DS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
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, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

51 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
51/100

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 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.

    45               46
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|--x-----x-------|
The Emptiness Machine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- G, C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 4-56 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-76 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 92-127 -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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?

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