Superhero · Simon Curtis

134 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 3:16 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Pop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-36, 49-50 and 55-60, and 2 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 164 BPM
SUPERHERO · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 15 sections: 94 keep time, 9 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-36.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART A
PART A
PART B
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
8 groovesCABS1S2+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Superhero?

164 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 Superhero hard to play on drums?

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 4 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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