Superunknown · Soundgarden

162 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 4:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 34-36 and 38-40, and 23 more places -- 38.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 134 BPM
SUPERUNKNOWN · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 37, 51, 52, 53, 61, 65 and 14 more.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 51-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 12 sections: 113 keep time, 22 are fills, 6 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-33.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 4
PART Q
OUTRO
6 groovesDGQJS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Superunknown?

134 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 Superunknown hard to play on drums?

61 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Superunknown?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 37, 51, 52, 53, 61, 65 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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