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Roll With The Changes · REO Speedwagon

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove E -- Outro 2
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OUTRO 2
2 groovesES2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Roll With The Changes on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
66/100

snare through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-125 and snare through bars 126-129.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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