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Roll Me Away · Bob Seger

EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove F -- Chorus
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0 / 26 PASSED · 85 BARS LIT
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFCHED+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Roll Me Away on drums

153 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
46/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-7 and hi-hat through bars 8-153.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-25, 27-29 and 31-40, and 6 more places -- 56.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Roll Me Away -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 46, 110, 111, 115, 136 and 144.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- F, C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 14-21 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Bars 46-89 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 100-115 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Roll Me Away?

125 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 Roll Me Away hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Roll Me Away?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 46, 110, 111, 115, 136 and 144.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED