Shuffle · Bombay Bicycle Club

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 33-39 and 41-47, and 2 more places -- 56.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 105 BPM
SHUFFLE · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 20, 24, 32, 40, 73 and 3 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 9 sections: 58 keep time, 9 are fills, 1 is a stop and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 90-101.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBS7S1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shuffle?

105 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Shuffle hard to play on drums?

50 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Shuffle?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 20, 24, 32, 40, 73 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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