A Line In The Sand · Linkin Park

121 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 13 more places -- 25.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
A LINE IN THE SAND · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 14, 18, 19 and 23 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 18-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 17 sections: 63 keep time, 29 are fills, 5 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 101-109.

PART B
PART F
PART J
PART K
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesEFKJB+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Line In The Sand?

100 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 A Line In The Sand hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 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 Sand?

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 14, 18, 19 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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