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The Last In Line · Dio

EXERCISE 25 OF 84
Groove R -- Part R
57 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 84 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Last In Line on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
5:47
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-20, toms through bars 21-24, ride through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-40 and ride through bars 41-44, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    21
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |--------x---------------x-------|
FT |x---x---------------------------|
BD |--------x---------------x-------|
The Last In Line -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- J, L -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Break 2 -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-25 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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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