Superstar · Saliva

172 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 3:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9, and 17 more places -- 33.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 184 BPM
SUPERSTAR · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

172 bars across 11 sections: 120 keep time and 42 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 154-168.

CHORUS
PART C
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 4
PART C
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesACDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Superstar?

184 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 Superstar hard to play on drums?

42 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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