SUFFO STUF · BALAMUT

108 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
2:17
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-47, 49-51 and 53-55, and 4 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 200 BPM
SUFFO STUF · BAR 45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 6, 10, 11, 14, 16, 18 and 19 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 10-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 10 sections: 61 keep time, 25 are fills, 2 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-68.

PART E
PART H
BREAK 3
CHORUS
PART AA
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK 4
8 groovesXHAAAS10+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is SUFFO STUF?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is SUFFO STUF hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 2:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 SUFFO STUF?

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 6, 10, 11, 14, 16, 18 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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