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Limelight (4 Part) · Rush

EXERCISE 1 OF 83
Groove R -- Chorus
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PART E
PART L
CHORUS
PART D
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART AM
PART AU
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesRLAMBDAU+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Limelight (4 Part) on drums

157 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 135 BPM, 4:08 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-35, ride through bars 36-42, hi-hat through bars 43-50, ride through bars 51-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-77, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34, 43-45 and 47-49, and 5 more places -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    43
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----x-----x-----------x-----|
Limelight (4 Part) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 6, 7, 15, 18, 19, 21 and 42 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- R -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AU -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-51 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 6-17 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part H -- 5 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Limelight (4 Part)?

135 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Limelight (4 Part) hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 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 Limelight (4 Part)?

19 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 6, 7, 15, 18, 19, 21 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED