Supernaut · Black Sabbath

138 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 4:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-13, 15 and 20-26, and 18 more places -- 37% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 116 BPM
SUPERNAUT · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 6, 14, 16, 18, 27, 28 and 20 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 13 sections: 98 keep time and 26 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 120-138.

CHORUS
PART L
PART L
PART T
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCLTAU+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Supernaut?

116 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 Supernaut hard to play on drums?

53 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Supernaut?

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 6, 14, 16, 18, 27, 28 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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