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Limits · Bad Omens

EXERCISE 4 OF 40
Groove L -- Chorus
18 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Limits on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
73/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-6, hi-hat through bars 7-18, snare through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-36 and toms through bars 37-40, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- V (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED