Line Without a Hook · Ricky Montgomery

120 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 95 BPM, 3:59 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-32, 50 and 52-54, and 8 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
LINE WITHOUT A HOOK · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 29 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 28-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 46-47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 13 sections: 64 keep time, 35 are fills, 5 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-9.

PART C
PART N
PART R
PART X
CHORUS
PART AH
PART AK
PART AM
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesQCAKNAH+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Line Without a Hook?

95 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Line Without a Hook hard to play on drums?

49 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Line Without a Hook?

13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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