Take A Look Around · Limp Bizkit

143 bars of 4/4 at a walking 101 BPM, 5:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
101 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-15, 18-20 and 22-24, and 8 more places -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 101 BPM
TAKE A LOOK AROUND · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 16, 25, 26 and 14 more.

LOOP · 101 BPM
BARS 9-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 101 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 12 sections: 95 keep time, 20 are fills, 4 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 94-108.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART L
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART P
PART U
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFPLUS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take A Look Around?

101 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Take A Look Around hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 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 Take A Look Around?

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 16, 25, 26 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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