Roller Coaster · blink-182

147 bars at 232 BPM -- fast, and 2:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
232 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-46, 111-118 and 127-133, and 1 more place -- 23.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 232 BPM
ROLLER COASTER · BAR 127
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 30, 38, 54, 62, 70 and 3 more.

LOOP · 232 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 232 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 232 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 232 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 14 sections: 92 keep time, 9 are fills, 23 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 95-109.

PART S2
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART Q
OUTRO
11 groovesFKQJO+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Roller Coaster?

232 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Roller Coaster hard to play on drums?

56 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Roller Coaster?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 30, 38, 54, 62, 70 and 3 more.

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