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Shofukan · Snarky Puppy

EXERCISE 9 OF 73
Groove B -- Chorus
28 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK, CHORUS
BREAK
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shofukan on drums

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.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
5:34
DIFFICULTY
85/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-6, silence through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-10, toms through bars 11-12 and hi-hat through bars 13-14, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    42
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o---x-x-x-x-|
SD |------------------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-x---x-----x-x---------x-|
Shofukan -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- AB -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AZ -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- BL -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-13 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 5-19 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  7. Through Part N -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 20-40 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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