Counterfeit · Limp Bizkit

117 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 5:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-36 and 45-56 -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 88 BPM
COUNTERFEIT · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 18, 20, 21, 22, 38, 40 and 21 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 20-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 64-69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 18 sections: 57 keep time, 27 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-35.

PART D
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART U
PART AL
14 groovesGLZALD+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Counterfeit?

88 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Counterfeit hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 5:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 Counterfeit?

7 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 18, 20, 21, 22, 38, 40 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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