Lines In The Sand · Dream Theater

306 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 10:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveRock120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
306
LENGTH
10:38
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 159-165, 167-173 and 179, and 5 more places -- 10.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
LINES IN THE SAND · BAR 159
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

28 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14 and 50 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 10-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

24 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

306 bars across 25 sections: 178 keep time, 56 are fills, 14 are stops and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-59.

PART Z
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART BM
PART BM
BREAK
20 groovesPBMZS25AV+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lines In The Sand?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Lines In The Sand hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

306 bars, about 10:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 112 exercises over 38 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 In The Sand?

28 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14 and 50 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 306 BARS ANALYSED
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