Pollution · Limp Bizkit

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10-12, and 12 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 105 BPM
POLLUTION · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 7, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 12 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 23-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 12 sections: 62 keep time, 18 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-68.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART Y
PART AA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCAAYGF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pollution?

105 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 Pollution hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 Pollution?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 7, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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