Roland · Interpol

125 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31, 33-34 and 37-38, and 9 more places -- 30.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
ROLAND · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 15, 16, 47, 48, 55, 56 and 8 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 9 sections: 93 keep time, 14 are fills, 2 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-46.

PART D
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesKHDRS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Roland?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Roland hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Roland?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 15, 16, 47, 48, 55, 56 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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