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The Lines In My Hand · Opeth

EXERCISE 32 OF 52
Groove W
118 / 158 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART V
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART R
PART V
PART AB
OUTRO
9 groovesBKABFAG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Lines In My Hand on drums

158 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- 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
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
66/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-65, snare through bars 66-77, ride through bars 78-85, silence through bars 86-91 and ride through bars 92-102, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 15 more places -- 34.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|x-------x-------|
RD |----x---X---x---|----x-------x---|
SD |x-----x-------x-|------x---x-----|
T2 |----------------|------------x-x-|
BD |--x-x-----x-----|x-------x-------|
The Lines In My Hand -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 55, 65, 67, 73, 75 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- B, D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-81 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 84-105 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and Part V -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Lines In My Hand?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Lines In My Hand hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 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 Lines In My Hand?

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 55, 65, 67, 73, 75 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED