Up To The Limit · Accept

145 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 33 and 43-49, and 9 more places -- 34.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 148 BPM
UP TO THE LIMIT · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 41, 42, 75, 76, 107 and 5 more.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 75-76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 107-108 · LANDS ON BAR 109 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 12 sections: 109 keep time, 11 are fills, 5 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-106.

CHORUS
PART H
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEHIXR+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Up To The Limit?

148 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 Up To The Limit hard to play on drums?

53 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Up To The Limit?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 41, 42, 75, 76, 107 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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