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Superunknown · Soundgarden

EXERCISE 19 OF 37
Groove M
125 / 162 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, CHORUS 4, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 4
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDGQJS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Superunknown on drums

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.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-49, snare through bars 50-53, hi-hat through bars 54-63, snare through bars 64-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-107, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----x---------|
HH |----o---o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
Superunknown -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 14-38 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 41-54 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 65-98 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 86-135 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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