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Pollution · Limp Bizkit

EXERCISE 6 OF 45
Groove AA -- Part AA (a two-bar phrase)
21 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AA, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pollution on drums

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.

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
89/100

silence through bars 1-5 and hi-hat through bars 6-99.

The beat

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.

    6
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x---------------x-------|
HH |o---o-------o---o---o-------o---|
SD |--------x---------x-----x-----x-|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x---xx--x-----|
Pollution -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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