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SUFFO STUF · BALAMUT

SUFFO STUF · BALAMUT
EXERCISE 15 OF 42
Groove E -- Part E
57 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play SUFFO STUF on drums

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.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
2:17
DIFFICULTY
77/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-34, snare through bars 35-37, silence through bars 38-44 and ride through bars 45-68, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
SUFFO STUF -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- X -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-20 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part E and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Break 3 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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