Between The Lines · Stone Temple Pilots

103 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 2:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-10, 21-25 and 28-35, and 5 more places -- 52% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BETWEEN THE LINES · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 60, 64, 68, 69, 70, 94 and 1 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 68-70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 94-95 · LANDS ON BAR 96 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 7 sections: 84 keep time, 7 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-51.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
5 groovesBES6JAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Between The Lines?

138 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 Between The Lines hard to play on drums?

50 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Between The Lines?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 60, 64, 68, 69, 70, 94 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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