The Longest Line · NOFX

90 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 2:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
173 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:05
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 22-28, and 4 more places -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 173 BPM
THE LONGEST LINE · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 29, 41, 57 and 3 more.

LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 6 sections: 72 keep time and 10 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-56.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Longest Line?

173 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 Longest Line hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 2:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Longest Line?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 29, 41, 57 and 3 more.

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