Hold the Line for Bass Players · Toto

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-18, 28-36 and 54, and 3 more places -- 32.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
HOLD THE LINE FOR BASS PLAYERS · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 3, 45, 53, 55, 57, 59 and 3 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 9 sections: 71 keep time, 9 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 73-88.

PART D
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFCDEAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hold the Line for Bass Players?

100 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 Hold the Line for Bass Players hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Hold the Line for Bass Players?

9 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 3, 45, 53, 55, 57, 59 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Toto drum parts

EVERY TOTO CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →