hold the line [v3] · process: something

109 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 5:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
5:38
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-6 and 8-10, and 5 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 81 BPM
HOLD THE LINE [V3] · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 31, 40, 41, 42, 43, 47 and 12 more.

LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 81 BPM
BARS 40-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 13 sections: 54 keep time, 18 are fills, 3 are stops and 31 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-30.

CHORUS
PART S2
PART K
PART O
PART S5
PART Q
PART S11
OUTRO
BREAK
10 groovesAS13QS2K+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is hold the line [v3]?

81 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 [v3] hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 92 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 5:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 [v3]?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 31, 40, 41, 42, 43, 47 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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