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Roll The Bones · Rush

EXERCISE 17 OF 63
Groove J
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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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Roll The Bones on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
5:51
DIFFICULTY
73/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-31, ride through bars 32-38, hi-hat through bars 39-69, ride through bars 70-90 and snare through bars 91-104, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    32
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
RD |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------X-----------------------X-----------|
BD |x-----------------------------x-----------x-----|
Roll The Bones -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- L, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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