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Line Without a Hook · Ricky Montgomery

EXERCISE 3 OF 68
Groove C -- Part C
27 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Line Without a Hook on drums

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.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 2-30, ride through bars 31-38, silence through bars 39-41, hi-hat through bars 42-45, ride through bars 46-75 and snare through bars 76-79, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x--x-x------|
Line Without a Hook -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- Q, AK -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part N and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-43 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part X and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part X and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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