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Shoots & Ladders · Korn

EXERCISE 5 OF 34
Run C1 · Part C (bars 5-24)
42 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shoots & Ladders on drums

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.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-29, hi-hat through bars 30-40, kick and crashes through bars 41-44, ride through bars 45-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-65, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    6
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |--------f---------------x-------|
T1 |------------x-x---x-------------|
T2 |x-x-------------x---------------|
FT |x-x-----------------x-----------|
BD |x---------------------x---------|
Shoots & Ladders -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, G -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 34-48 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through Part P -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-62 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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