Danger Line · Belt Thrower

346 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 11:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
346
LENGTH
11:32
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-31, 114-116 and 118-120, and 16 more places -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
DANGER LINE · BARS 17-18
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 32, 44, 59, 60, 86, 98 and 28 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 59-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

346 bars across 28 sections: 229 keep time, 35 are fills, 30 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 163-189.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AM
PART AR
OUTRO 2
22 groovesCGAMARQ+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Danger Line?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Danger Line hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is 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?

346 bars, about 11:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 97 exercises over 32 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Danger Line?

18 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 32, 44, 59, 60, 86, 98 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 346 BARS ANALYSED
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