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Superposition · Young The Giant

EXERCISE 9 OF 9
Play the whole song with the record
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CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK 3
CHORUS 4
BREAK 4
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesACS10S2S4+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Superposition on drums

158 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
46/100

hi-hat through bars 1-38, silence through bars 39-40, hi-hat through bars 41-64, silence through bars 65-66, hi-hat through bars 67-84 and silence through bars 85-86, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3-9 and 11-17, and 17 more places -- 86.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Bars 37-109 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Superposition?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Superposition hard to play on drums?

46 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED