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Time Limit · Casiopea

EXERCISE 5 OF 50
Groove A
38 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART AK, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Time Limit on drums

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.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
80/100

hi-hat through bars 1-18, ride through bars 19-21, hi-hat through bars 22-30, ride through bars 31-34, hi-hat through bars 35-38 and ride through bars 39-46, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    12
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x-x---x-----x---x-x---x-x---|
SD |--g-----x---g-g---g-----x-----g-|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
Time Limit -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AK -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-84 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  8. Bars 31-46 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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