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Supernaut · Black Sabbath

EXERCISE 15 OF 50
Fill at bar 16 and 38 (a small one)
103 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART L
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Supernaut on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-26, hi-hat through bars 27-30, snare through bars 31-46, hi-hat through bars 47-50 and snare through bars 51-70, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Supernaut -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L, T -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-79 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 7-51 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 54-79 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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