Roulette · Bon Jovi

138 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 33-35 and 37-43, and 8 more places -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
ROULETTE · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 20, 28, 36, 44, 48, 56 and 18 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 11 sections: 90 keep time, 24 are fills, 3 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-19.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART P
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCFPS1S2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Roulette?

120 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 Roulette hard to play on drums?

50 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Roulette?

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 20, 28, 36, 44, 48, 56 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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