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Roller Coaster · blink-182

EXERCISE 21 OF 42
Join Part J to Part K (bars 45-47)
109 / 147 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART K
PART S2
CHORUS
PART J
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART Q
OUTRO
11 groovesFKQJO+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Roller Coaster on drums

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.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
232 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
56/100

snare through bars 1-5, silence through bars 6-13, ride through bars 14-15, silence through bars 16-17, ride through bars 18-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-46, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    127
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
Roller Coaster -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- J, F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-40 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 40-55 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-71 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part O and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 87-135 -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED