Superfriend · Rivers Cuomo

91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-17, 19-25 and 27, and 11 more places -- 46.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 104 BPM
SUPERFRIEND · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 28, 37, 40, 41, 61 and 7 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 40-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 5 sections: 73 keep time, 13 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-27.

PART B
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDEQPBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Superfriend?

104 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 Superfriend hard to play on drums?

50 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 Superfriend?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 28, 37, 40, 41, 61 and 7 more.

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