Superstar · AqME

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 3:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-48, 65-71 and 73-75, and 1 more place -- 25.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 98 BPM
SUPERSTAR · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 20, 28, 36, 40, 60, 64 and 3 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 10 sections: 62 keep time, 9 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

PART A
PART B
PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFCBAH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Superstar?

98 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 Superstar hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Superstar?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 20, 28, 36, 40, 60, 64 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED
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