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Superman · Stereophonics

EXERCISE 17 OF 23
Groove G -- Part G
124 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART F
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART G
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBFS1GFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Superman on drums

140 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-37, toms through bars 38-45, hi-hat through bars 46-63, toms through bars 64-71 and hi-hat through bars 72-83, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-28, 46-54 and 72-74, and 4 more places -- 32.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 29, 37, 55, 63, 75, 83 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 29-39 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 34-80 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 90-130 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Superman?

115 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?

48 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Superman?

2 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 29, 37, 55, 63, 75, 83 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED