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Lines · First Day Back

EXERCISE 6 OF 32
Groove D
53 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART S3
PART N
OUTRO
7 groovesCNS3OP+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lines on drums

138 bars, 7:22, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
7:22
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-38, silence through bars 39-44, hi-hat through bars 45-69, ride through bars 70-133 and hi-hat through bars 134-138.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 42 more places -- 35.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----------x---|
RD |----x---x-------|
SD |------g-x-------|
BD |x---------x-x---|
Lines -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, F -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 5-50 -- 9 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part N and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part P and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Lines?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Lines hard to play on drums?

44 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 7:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Lines?

7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED