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Supermodels · south arcade

EXERCISE 26 OF 26
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
BREAK
OUTRO
6 groovesCBKFS8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Supermodels on drums

103 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-12, hi-hat through bars 13-27, snare through bars 28-36, hi-hat through bars 37-43 and snare through bars 44-60, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7, 11 and 29-35, and 5 more places -- 45.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    29               30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x------x|-xx---x-x-------|
Supermodels -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 12, 52, 95 and 103.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- C, F -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 24-46 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Supermodels?

126 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 Supermodels 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Supermodels?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 12, 52, 95 and 103.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED