Across The Line · Linkin Park

65 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 2:53 of playing, on crash, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-19 and 21-25 -- 46.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
ACROSS THE LINE · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars across 6 sections: 25 keep time, 1 is a stop and 37 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-26.

PART C
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
6 groovesS4ES6CA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Across The Line?

90 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 Across The Line hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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