Supersoaker · Kings Of Leon

129 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 7 more places -- 56.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 138 BPM
SUPERSOAKER · BAR 46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 11 sections: 112 keep time, 3 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 105-128.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBDS1FS7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Supersoaker?

138 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 Supersoaker 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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