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i walk the line · Alien Sex Fiend

i walk the line · Alien Sex Fiend
EXERCISE 12 OF 15
Join Chorus 2 to Break 2 (bars 123-125)
131 / 148 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, BREAK 2
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCADS7S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play i walk the line on drums

148 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
42/100

snare through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-55, snare through bars 56-57, hi-hat through bars 58-124, silence through bars 125-133 and hi-hat through bars 134-148.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-38, 43-55 and 58-68, and 8 more places -- 71.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
i walk the line -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 148.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Bars 42-124 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is i walk the line?

124 BPM, in 4/4, 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 i walk the line hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in i walk the line?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 148.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED