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Superbeast · Rob Zombie

EXERCISE 4 OF 24
Groove C
104 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBES1DHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Superbeast on drums

136 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-88, ride through bars 89-92 and hi-hat through bars 93-136.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 37-42, and 9 more places -- 59.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 43, 44, 52, 79, 80 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- B, E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 27-65 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 90-116 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Superbeast?

155 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 Superbeast hard to play on drums?

48 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Superbeast?

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 43, 44, 52, 79, 80 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED