Roll With The Changes · REO Speedwagon

129 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 88% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-18 and 20-22, and 6 more places -- 87.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
ROLL WITH THE CHANGES · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 19, 23, 39, 43, 55 and 2 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 129
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 3 sections: 114 keep time, 8 are fills, 5 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-125.

OUTRO 2
2 groovesES2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Roll With The Changes?

100 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 With The Changes hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 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 With The Changes?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 19, 23, 39, 43, 55 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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