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Straight Out Of Line · Godsmack

EXERCISE 28 OF 50
Groove Q -- Part Q (a two-bar phrase)
72 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Straight Out Of Line on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
65/100

snare through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-9, snare through bars 10-19, toms through bars 20-25, ride through bars 26-33 and snare through bars 34-39, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----x---------|
RD |--x-x---x-x-x-x-|
SD |---x--------x---|
BD |x----xx--x-x-x-x|
Straight Out Of Line -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- K -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-26 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-57 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part Q and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED