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Superstar · AqME

EXERCISE 10 OF 38
Fill at bar 20, 28 and 36 (a small one)
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0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Superstar on drums

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.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
43/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, toms through bars 17-28, snare through bars 29-32, toms through bars 33-40 and snare through bars 41-47, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Superstar -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- F, B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-20 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-41 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 37-53 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 53-61 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 59-81 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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