ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 40 roll on drums

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.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO: 141 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 106
LENGTH: 3:00
DIFFICULTY: 83/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, kick and crashes through bars 15-17, snare through bars 18-66, silence through bars 67-73 and snare through bars 74-87, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    45                                                               46
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---x-----------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------g-----------------------x-------g-----------g---x-------|----g-------x-----------g-------x-------------------g---x---x---|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------x---|--------x-------x---x-------x-------x---x---x-------------------|

40 roll -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part A and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part I and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through Part O -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
Bars 24-45 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
Through Part AG -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
and 6 more sittings after that.

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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