Superstitious · Europe

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 6-8 and 10-12, and 14 more places -- 45.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
SUPERSTITIOUS · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 4, 9, 17, 25, 28 and 8 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 7 sections: 54 keep time, 14 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-72.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBFNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Superstitious?

90 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 Superstitious hard to play on drums?

48 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Superstitious?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 4, 9, 17, 25, 28 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED
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