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I Walk The Line · Those Poor Bastards

I Walk The Line · Those Poor Bastards
EXERCISE 6 OF 6
Play the whole song with the record
46 / 68 BARS COVERED
0 / 6 PASSED · 68 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Walk The Line on drums

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

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

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
25/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16, snare through bars 17-24, silence through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-50 and silence through bars 51-56, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
I Walk The Line -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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