Suits and Ladders · NOFX

73 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PunkRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-18 and 20-23, and 5 more places -- 33.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SUITS AND LADDERS · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 12, 16, 19 and 12 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 24-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 9 sections: 44 keep time, 18 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-71.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFCJKS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Suits and Ladders?

120 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 Suits and Ladders hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Suits and Ladders?

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 12, 16, 19 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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