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What I've Done · Linkin Park

EXERCISE 16 OF 16
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
BREAK
CHORUS 3
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBCHS7S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play What I've Done on drums

100 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:20 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
36/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-7, hi-hat through bars 8-18, snare through bars 19-59, hi-hat through bars 60-71 and silence through bars 72-75, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-7, 13 and 15, and 7 more places -- 80.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--g---g---g---g-|
HF |g---g---g---g---|
What I've Done -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 34 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-53 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 70-81 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is What I've Done?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is What I've Done hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED