Roll The Bones · Rush

164 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 5:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockProgressive90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
5:51
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32, 36 and 70, and 14 more places -- 10.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 112 BPM
ROLL THE BONES · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 19, 57, 77, 81, 86, 90 and 13 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 18 sections: 114 keep time, 19 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-30.

PART D
PART G
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART W
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
9 groovesNGDLW+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Roll The Bones?

112 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 The Bones hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 5:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 The Bones?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 19, 57, 77, 81, 86, 90 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
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