Time Limit · Casiopea

99 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / BluesProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-13, 16-17 and 24-25, and 4 more places -- 14.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 126 BPM
TIME LIMIT · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 30 and 9 more.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 126 BPM
BARS 18-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 12 sections: 67 keep time and 15 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-86.

PART B
PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART AK
PART AL
PART AK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesPFAKBAT+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Time Limit?

126 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 Time Limit hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 15 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 Time Limit?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 30 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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