Superman · Goldfinger

150 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 3:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkHip Hop / Reggae150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-26, 59-74 and 127-134 -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 195 BPM
SUPERMAN · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 2, 34, 44, 46, 49, 50 and 11 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 11 sections: 115 keep time, 17 are fills, 7 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-26.

PART D
CHORUS
PART F
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART I
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEPFDX+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Superman?

195 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 Superman hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Superman?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 2, 34, 44, 46, 49, 50 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED
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