I Walk The Line · Those Poor Bastards

68 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 2:31 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
25/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 91% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-24, 29-50 and 57-68 -- 91.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 108 BPM
I WALK THE LINE · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 7 sections: 45 keep time and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-50.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
OUTRO
5 groovesCS1S6BS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Walk The Line?

108 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?

25 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED
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