Up From the Bottom · Linkin Park

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 3:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

107 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

81

LENGTH

3:02

DIFFICULTY

70/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-5, snare through bars 6-8, hi-hat through bars 9-29, snare through bars 30-31 and hi-hat through bars 32-52, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-28, 44-50 and 75-76, and 1 more place -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x--xx-------|

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 5, 17, 21, 29, 39 and 13 more.

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- K -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. Through the Break and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
4. Through Part A and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
5. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
6. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. Bars 39-52 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
8. Through Part P and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
9. and 2 more sittings after that.