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Silvergun Superman · Stone Temple Pilots

EXERCISE 14 OF 49
Groove I -- Part I (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 49 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART I
PART B
CHORUS
PART I
PART N
PART P
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDIFNG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Silvergun Superman on drums

73 bars, 4:11, at 69 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
69 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
69/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-13, ride through bars 14-20, hi-hat through bars 21-29, ride through bars 30-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-52, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12 and 22-28 -- 19.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 5, 13, 20, 21, 29 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 33-42 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-50 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-57 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Silvergun Superman?

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

Is Silvergun Superman hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Silvergun Superman?

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 5, 13, 20, 21, 29 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED