Super Rad · The Aquabats

128 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 2:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Hip Hop / ReggaePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
173 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-11 and 13-14, and 7 more places -- 35.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 173 BPM
SUPER RAD · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 15, 39, 63, 67, 71 and 9 more.

LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 10 sections: 94 keep time, 15 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-30.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART M
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBDIMTFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Super Rad?

173 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Super Rad hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 14 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Super Rad?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 15, 39, 63, 67, 71 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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