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EXERCISE 25 OF 35
Fill at bar 80 (a small one)
111 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Roland on drums

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.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-30, ride through bars 31-34, hi-hat through bars 35-36, ride through bars 37-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-40, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Roland -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- K, H -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-74 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 71-109 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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