Limits · Bad Omens

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 3:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-6, 21-23 and 25, and 3 more places -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 103 BPM
LIMITS · BARS 3-4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 2, 16, 28, 37, 38, 39 and 5 more.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BARS 37-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 9 sections: 56 keep time, 11 are fills, 4 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-13.

PART C
PART H
PART C
PART F
PART G
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesLCFYG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Limits?

103 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 Limits hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 14 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Limits?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 2, 16, 28, 37, 38, 39 and 5 more.

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