ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Flesh And The Power It Holds on drums

324 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 7:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 182 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 324
LENGTH: 7:10
DIFFICULTY: 100/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-14, hi-hat through bars 15-16, ride through bars 17-22, hi-hat through bars 23-40 and silence through bars 41-48, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 50-52, 54-55 and 59-61, and 13 more places -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    50                                               51
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x--x--------x--x--x--x--x--x--------|x--x--------x-----------x--x--------x-----------|

Flesh And The Power It Holds -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 12, 15, 16, 20, 23, 24 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 77 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- AL -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- AP -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes. Open above.
Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part B and Part S3 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part S3 and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Bars 39-47 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
and 20 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Flesh And The Power It Holds?

182 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Flesh And The Power It Holds hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

324 bars, about 7:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 28 sittings, about 25 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 Flesh And The Power It Holds?

16 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 12, 15, 16, 20, 23, 24 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 324 BARS ANALYSED