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Superman · Goldfinger

Superman · Goldfinger
EXERCISE 1 OF 54
Groove E -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Superman on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 3-26, ride through bars 27-42, hi-hat through bars 43-74, ride through bars 75-90, hi-hat through bars 91-94 and toms through bars 95-96, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
Superman -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 2-30 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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