A Line In The Dust · LANDMVRKS

154 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 3:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-15 and 21, and 14 more places -- 25.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 158 BPM
A LINE IN THE DUST · BAR 40
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 30 and 19 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 5-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 30-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 16 sections: 86 keep time, 26 are fills, 28 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 116-129.

PART A
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART R
CHORUS 4
PART D
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesEADRB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Line In The Dust?

158 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 A Line In The Dust hard to play on drums?

55 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 A Line In The Dust?

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 30 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
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