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On The Line · Tangier

On The Line · Tangier
EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove C -- Part C
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CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDCFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play On The Line on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 4:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-69, ride through bars 70-74 and hi-hat through bars 75-97.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 10 and 12, and 20 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
On The Line -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 17, 33, 34, 35, 41 and 9 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, D -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-70 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is On The Line?

92 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 On The Line 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 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 On The Line?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 17, 33, 34, 35, 41 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED