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Limelight · Rush

EXERCISE 26 OF 61
Join Part T to Chorus 2 (bars 38-40)
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0 / 61 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART T, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Limelight on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-24, ride through bars 25-31, hi-hat through bars 32-39, ride through bars 40-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-57, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    113
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------------x-----------------------------------|
HH |o-----o-----------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Limelight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- T, Q -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AQ -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part Q -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 36-58 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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