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Gimme The Mic · Limp Bizkit

Gimme The Mic · Limp Bizkit
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EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove F -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 39 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gimme The Mic on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
101 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
79/100

hi-hat through bars 1-17, snare through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-29, snare through bars 30-33, hi-hat through bars 34-50 and snare through bars 51-54, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10                               11
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---o-------x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------x-----x-------|
BD |x---x-----------x---x-----x-----|x---x-----------x-----x---x-----|
HF |--------------------------------|--------------------x-----------|
Gimme The Mic -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- F, H -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-22 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 20-34 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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