Shoots & Ladders · Korn

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-21, 25 and 70 -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 87 BPM
SHOOTS & LADDERS · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 29, 53, 60, 61, 63, 64 and 2 more.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 87 BPM
BARS 60-61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BARS 63-65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 10 sections: 62 keep time, 8 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-23.

PART C
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKCDPAA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shoots & Ladders?

87 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 Shoots & Ladders hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 Shoots & Ladders?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 29, 53, 60, 61, 63, 64 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED
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