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Champagne Supernova · Oasis

EXERCISE 1 OF 53
Groove D -- Part D
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PART D
PART C
CHORUS
PART D
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFDCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Champagne Supernova on drums

111 bars, 5:55, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
5:55
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-27, snare through bars 28-29, ride through bars 30-33, hi-hat through bars 34-56 and snare through bars 57-65, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 10-11 and 13, and 7 more places -- 26.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    11
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----x---x-----x-----x-|
BD |x---------------x---x-----------|
Champagne Supernova -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 5, 17, 21, 25, 26, 27 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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, F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-21 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Champagne Supernova?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Champagne Supernova hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 5:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Champagne Supernova?

18 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 5, 17, 21, 25, 26, 27 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED