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Counterfeit · Limp Bizkit

EXERCISE 9 OF 54
6-bar fill at bar 64
52 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Counterfeit on drums

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.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
85/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-64, ride through bars 65-66, kick and crashes through bars 67-68, hi-hat through bars 69-70 and ride through bars 71-82, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25                               26
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---o---|----x---x---x---x---o-------o---|
SD |--------x---------x-----x-x---x-|--------x-----x-----------------|
BD |x-----------x-x-------x-----x---|x-----x-----------x-x-----x-x---|
HF |--------------------------------|x-----------------------x-------|
Counterfeit -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- L -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-70 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 7-40 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-74 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and Part W -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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