The Last In Line · Dio

126 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 5:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
5:47
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 45 and 81-83, and 2 more places -- 10.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 86 BPM
THE LAST IN LINE · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 6, 16, 24, 28, 30, 33 and 19 more.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 15 sections: 83 keep time, 25 are fills, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 93-103.

PART E
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART AH
PART AC
PART AR
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesJLACEAH+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Last In Line?

86 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 The Last In Line hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 5:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 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 The Last In Line?

21 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 6, 16, 24, 28, 30, 33 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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