Gimme The Mic · Limp Bizkit

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 101 BPM, 2:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
101 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-17, 22-29 and 43-50 -- 32% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 101 BPM
GIMME THE MIC · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 21 and 12 more.

LOOP · 101 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 101 BPM
BARS 38-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 12 sections: 42 keep time and 18 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-16.

PART C
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART H
PART L
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFLHCP+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gimme The Mic?

101 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 Gimme The Mic hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 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 Gimme The Mic?

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 21 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED
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