Liminal · Nebula

123 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 5:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-12, 108-119 and 121 -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
LIMINAL · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 25 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 1-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 14-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 15 sections: 68 keep time, 31 are fills, 7 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 109-119.

CHORUS
PART N
PART N
PART S
PART AG
PART AA
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGSNAAD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Liminal?

95 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 Liminal hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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 Liminal?

12 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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