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Suits and Ladders · NOFX

EXERCISE 19 OF 30
Groove K -- Part K
65 / 73 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Suits and Ladders on drums

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

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
69/100

hi-hat through bars 3-19, snare through bars 20-24, hi-hat through bars 25-41, snare through bars 42-43, hi-hat through bars 44-49 and snare through bars 50-51, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--xx-x-x--|
Suits and Ladders -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-30 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 47-54 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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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