The Little Things Give You Away · Linkin Park

86 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 70 BPM, 3:41 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-19 and 21, and 7 more places -- 68.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 70 BPM
THE LITTLE THINGS GIVE YOU AWAY · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 12 and 20.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 5 sections: 77 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-86.

CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Little Things Give You Away?

70 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is The Little Things Give You Away hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Little Things Give You Away?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 12 and 20.

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