← SONGS

(Rock) Superstar · Cypress Hill

(Rock) Superstar · Cypress Hill
EXERCISE 1 OF 7
Groove C -- Verse
0 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 7 PASSED · 64 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
VERSE
BREAK
VERSE 2
VERSE 3
BREAK 3
VERSE 4
5 groovesCS3S7S1S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play (Rock) Superstar on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:57 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-32, silence through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48, silence through bars 49-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-68, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-32, 41-48 and 53-67, and 1 more place -- 95.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |gggggggggggggggg|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x----x-x--x--|
(Rock) Superstar -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is (Rock) Superstar?

95 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 (Rock) Superstar hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED