Straight Out Of Line · Godsmack

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30-31 and 46-48, and 6 more places -- 25.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 92 BPM
STRAIGHT OUT OF LINE · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 9, 13, 25, 29, 32, 45 and 15 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 12 sections: 53 keep time, 21 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

PART B
PART F
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART Q
CHORUS 3
4 groovesKBFQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Straight Out Of 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 Straight Out Of Line hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 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 Straight Out Of Line?

13 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 9, 13, 25, 29, 32, 45 and 15 more.

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