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EXERCISE 30 OF 43
Groove X -- Part X (a two-bar phrase)
125 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART X
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Up To The Limit on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-33, ride through bars 34-42, hi-hat through bars 43-67, ride through bars 68-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-116, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Up To The Limit -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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, H -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-21 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 34-80 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus 3 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part X -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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