Hold The Line · Toto

95 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 97 BPM, 5:49 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
5:49
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-18, 28 and 30, and 3 more places -- 28.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 97 BPM
HOLD THE LINE · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 3, 9, 19, 25, 26, 27 and 7 more.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 97 BPM
BARS 25-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 7 sections: 44 keep time, 13 are fills and 31 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-18.

PART G
PART D
PART G
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesS7GDPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hold The Line?

97 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Hold The Line hard to play on drums?

54 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 5:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Hold The Line?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 3, 9, 19, 25, 26, 27 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED
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