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Stalemate · Limp Bizkit

EXERCISE 1 OF 76
Groove AG -- Chorus
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PART C
PART F
PART T
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
17 groovesAGTACWAU+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 15
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stalemate on drums

164 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 4:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
93/100

ride through bars 3-11, hi-hat through bars 12-13, ride through bars 14-25, silence through bars 26-29, hi-hat through bars 30-46 and snare through bars 47-49, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 90-92, 94-96 and 106-108, and 2 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    92
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-----------x-------x-----------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-x-------x---|
Stalemate -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- AG -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part F -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and Part S4 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 19 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Stalemate?

134 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 Stalemate hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 27 sittings, about 23 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 Stalemate?

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED