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Shuffle · Bombay Bicycle Club

Shuffle · Bombay Bicycle Club
EXERCISE 1 OF 23
Groove D -- Chorus
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0 / 23 PASSED · 40 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shuffle on drums

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.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-21, silence through bars 22-24, hi-hat through bars 25-48, silence through bars 49-73 and hi-hat through bars 74-101.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Shuffle -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- D, B -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part S4 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-78 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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