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Push It To The Limit · Scarface

EXERCISE 6 OF 9
2-bar fill at bar 115
113 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 9 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Push It To The Limit on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
74/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x---r-r-x-r-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Push It To The Limit -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
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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