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Roll Right · Rage Against The Machine

EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove C -- Chorus
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PART S1
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART O
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCHOSS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Roll Right on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 4:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
54/100

snare through bar 1, silence through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-26, snare through bars 27-33, hi-hat through bars 34-50 and snare through bars 51-57, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-16 and 18-21, and 9 more places -- 35.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 9, 27, 29, 31, 33, 41 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-42 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-66 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and the Chorus 3 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Roll Right?

85 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 Right hard to play on drums?

54 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Roll Right?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 9, 27, 29, 31, 33, 41 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED