Shotgun Suckstart (redo 2025) · Boltcutter

97 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-8 and 48-51 -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 115 BPM
SHOTGUN SUCKSTART (REDO 2025) · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 9, 47, 62 and 97.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 12 sections: 48 keep time, 5 are fills, 31 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

PART B
PART E
PART G
PART H
PART N
PART U
CHORUS
10 groovesAFNUBE+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shotgun Suckstart (redo 2025)?

115 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 Shotgun Suckstart (redo 2025) hard to play on drums?

58 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Shotgun Suckstart (redo 2025)?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 9, 47, 62 and 97.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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