Limb of Leviticus (THAT riff) · archfire

24 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 0:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
24
LENGTH
0:36
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-7 and 18-20, and 1 more place -- 58.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
LIMB OF LEVITICUS (THAT RIFF) · BAR 2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 24.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 24
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

24 bars across 3 sections: 16 keep time, 1 is a fill and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
2 groovesBS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Limb of Leviticus (THAT riff)?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Limb of Leviticus (THAT riff) hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

24 bars, about 0:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Limb of Leviticus (THAT riff)?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 24.

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