Push It To The Limit · Scarface

116 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 2:58 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 95% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-11 and 14-47, and 1 more place -- 94.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 156 BPM
PUSH IT TO THE LIMIT · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 48, 115 and 116.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BARS 115-116 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars: 112 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-114.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Push It To The Limit?

156 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Push It To The Limit hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 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 Push It To The Limit?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 48, 115 and 116.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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