Supercell · King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

125 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 142 BPM, 4:47 of playing on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 25-27, and 2 more places -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 142 BPM
SUPERCELL · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 12, 20, 24, 28, 32, 44 and 10 more.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BARS 88-92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 14 sections: 56 keep time, 16 are fills, 5 are stops and 40 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

PART B
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART K
OUTRO
BREAK
10 groovesS14FIKQ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Supercell?

142 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Supercell hard to play on drums?

62 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 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Supercell?

4 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 12, 20, 24, 28, 32, 44 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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