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Roulette · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 1 OF 41
Groove F -- Part F
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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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Roulette on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-12, hi-hat through bars 13-85, toms through bars 86-90 and hi-hat through bars 91-138.

The beat

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.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Roulette -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- F, C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 13-62 -- 10 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  3. Through Part F and Part P -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 77-94 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 91-135 -- 11 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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