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SUPERMAN · South Arcade

EXERCISE 3 OF 34
Fill at bar 13, 17 and 41 (a small one)
50 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBDROS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play SUPERMAN on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 3:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 2-49, snare through bars 50-53, hi-hat through bars 54-73 and snare through bars 74-81.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 26-28 and 30-36, and 2 more places -- 33.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x--x-----|
SUPERMAN -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 25, 29, 37 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- B, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 2-26 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is SUPERMAN?

107 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 SUPERMAN hard to play on drums?

58 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:02 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, hi-hat, snare, 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 SUPERMAN?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 25, 29, 37 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED