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The Propaganda · Limp Bizkit

EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove E -- Part E
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PART B
PART E
PART C
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesJBEICFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Propaganda on drums

189 bars at 181 BPM -- fast, and 4:11 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
181 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
45/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-41, snare through bars 42-48, hi-hat through bars 49-65, snare through bars 66-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-105, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42, 44 and 46, and 10 more places -- 40.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    127
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---------x---|
The Propaganda -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 49, 73, 109 and 117.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- E, C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and Part C -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Propaganda?

181 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 The Propaganda hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Propaganda?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 49, 73, 109 and 117.

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