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Between The Lines · Stone Temple Pilots

EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
5 groovesBES6JAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Between The Lines on drums

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.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
50/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-10, ride through bars 11-20, snare through bars 21-25, toms through bars 26-27 and hi-hat through bars 28-35, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- B, C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 49-61 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 57-72 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 69-96 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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