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Wastelands · Linkin Park

EXERCISE 12 OF 39
Groove F -- Part F
87 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
COUNT-IN
PART E
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART E
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
12 groovesBCEJS1+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wastelands on drums

134 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:09 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-34, snare through bars 35-55, hi-hat through bars 56-72 and snare through bars 73-104, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-14, 16 and 36-49, and 10 more places -- 47.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    37
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |x-----------x-----------|
BD |------x---x-------------|
Wastelands -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 99, 115 and 133.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 11-28 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-34 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 35-55 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 61-74 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 76-105 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Wastelands?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Wastelands hard to play on drums?

54 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Wastelands?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 99, 115 and 133.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED