Limelight · Rush

136 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 4:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-34, 36-38 and 65-67, and 5 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 131 BPM
LIMELIGHT · BAR 113
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 30 more.

LOOP · 131 BPM
BARS 6-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 14 sections: 67 keep time, 36 are fills, 10 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-73.

CHORUS
PART Q
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART T
PART Q
PART AQ
PART T
OUTRO
9 groovesDTQAQAX+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Limelight?

131 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 Limelight hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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?

12 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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