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A Line In The Sand · Linkin Park

EXERCISE 17 OF 52
Join Part B to Part F (bars 10-12)
82 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART F
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Line In The Sand on drums

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.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-10, hi-hat through bars 11-17, snare through bars 18-38, hi-hat through bars 39-52 and silence through bars 53-55, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 12-52 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 56-71 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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