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The Little Things Give You Away · Linkin Park

EXERCISE 15 OF 15
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Little Things Give You Away on drums

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.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-34, snare through bars 35-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-86.

The beat

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.

    5
    1.....2.....3.....
CC |x-----------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-g-x-x-|
HH |-x-x-x-x---x-x-x-x|
SD |---------x--------|
BD |x-----------------|
The Little Things Give You Away -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED