Super Trouper · ABBA

123 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-23, 27 and 30, and 14 more places -- 74.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 119 BPM
SUPER TROUPER · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 8 sections: 103 keep time and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-39.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCS7S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Super Trouper?

119 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 Super Trouper hard to play on drums?

52 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 4 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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