One Step Closer
Linkin Park · 2000
Aggressive half-time groove with dynamic builds for power playing.
- Artist
- Linkin Park
- Year
- 2000
- Genre
- nu-metal
- Drummer
- Rob Bourdon
- Tempo
- 95 bpm
- Time
- 4/4
- Feel
- heavy half-time groove
- Difficulty
- intermediate
Drummer's Quick-Start
Practice tempos
Woodshed
58bpm
Building
76bpm
Target
95bpm
The feel
A heavy half-time groove in 4/4 around 95 BPM. A comfortable mid-tempo — lock the backbeat first, then shape the dynamics.
What to watch
- •Feel the backbeat on beat 3. Resist collapsing it into a straight-time groove.
How to learn it
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Learn it
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