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Boiler · Limp Bizkit

EXERCISE 4 OF 33
Groove H -- Part H
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0 / 33 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART H, CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART R
OUTRO
6 groovesBS1RPH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Boiler on drums

148 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 5:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-141 and ride through bars 142-148.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 29 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----x---------|
HH |--oooooooooooooo|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x--x--x----x----|
Boiler -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 40, 44, 48 and 13 more.

What the course does

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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 37-85 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Boiler?

116 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 Boiler hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 5:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Boiler?

3 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 40, 44, 48 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED