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A Line In The Dust · LANDMVRKS

EXERCISE 18 OF 60
Groove I
90 / 154 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS 2, PART R
PART A
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Line In The Dust on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-28, snare through bars 29-52, hi-hat through bars 53-60, silence through bars 61-62, hi-hat through bars 63-66 and ride through bars 67-68, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    40
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--x-x---------x-|
A Line In The Dust -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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, A, D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-103 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-17 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 23-33 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 31-46 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 46-70 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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