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Hold the Line for Bass Players · Toto

EXERCISE 14 OF 36
Fill at bar 45 (a small one)
80 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hold the Line for Bass Players on drums

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.

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
87/100

snare through bars 1-3 and hi-hat through bars 4-94.

The beat

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.

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    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x---x-x-x---x---x---|
Hold the Line for Bass Players -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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