Shofukan · Snarky Puppy

117 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 5:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / BluesFunk / SoulUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
5:34
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-42, 45-50 and 52 -- 8.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 84 BPM
SHOFUKAN · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 18 and 32 more.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BARS 10-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 84 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 14 sections: 58 keep time, 38 are fills, 3 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-52.

CHORUS
PART N
PART S6
PART AB
PART AF
PART AR
PART AU
PART A
PART AZ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesBAZABAFA+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shofukan?

84 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Shofukan hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 5:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 20 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 Shofukan?

18 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 18 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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