Just Drop Dead · Limp Bizkit

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

95 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

96

LENGTH

4:03

DIFFICULTY

58/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-24, snare through bars 25-27, hi-hat through bars 28-52, snare through bars 53-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-88, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 9-19 and 21-23, and 5 more places -- 47.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x----xx-x----x|x-x----xx-x--x--|

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 24, 27, 28, 32, 48 and 13 more.

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 -- C, H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
5. Bars 21-56 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
6. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. Through Part H and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
8. Through Part O and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
9. and 2 more sittings after that.