40 roll · Chris Turner

106 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 3:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Hip Hop / ReggaeRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 45-47, 49-50 and 53-55, and 1 more place -- 10.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 141 BPM
40 ROLL · BARS 45-46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 12, 13, 29, 31, 36, 39 and 10 more.

LOOP · 141 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 12 sections: 67 keep time, 16 are fills, 1 is a stop and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-79.

COUNT-IN
PART A
PART I
PART O
PART AG
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAYIOAGA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 40 roll?

141 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 40 roll hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 40 roll?

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 12, 13, 29, 31, 36, 39 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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