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Across The Line · Linkin Park

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove E -- Chorus
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PART C
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
6 groovesS4ES6CA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Across The Line on drums

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

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
51/100

kick and crashes through bars 3-4, snare through bars 5-26, silence through bars 27-50, snare through bars 51-53 and silence through bars 54-65.

The beat

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.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--r---r---r---r-|
BD |x-x-xgx-x-x-x-x-|
HF |XxxXxXxXXxxXxXxX|
Across The Line -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-53 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED