Roll Over Lay Down · Status Quo

168 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
5:36
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 66% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-12, 14 and 16, and 20 more places -- 66.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
ROLL OVER LAY DOWN · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars across 6 sections: 136 keep time, 2 are stops and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-52.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBS4DFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Roll Over Lay Down?

120 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 Roll Over Lay Down hard to play on drums?

56 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 5:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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