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Gimme Tha Power · Molotov

EXERCISE 31 OF 35
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 76-78)
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PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGDBKIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gimme Tha Power on drums

83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 4:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
62/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-5, snare through bars 6-25, hi-hat through bars 26-37, ride through bars 38-41 and snare through bars 42-53, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-32, 34-36 and 54-60, and 3 more places -- 31.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x-------x---x-------x|
Gimme Tha Power -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 5, 17, 25, 33, 37 and 6 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 -- G, D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-26 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-43 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 44-73 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Gimme Tha Power?

81 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Gimme Tha Power hard to play on drums?

62 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 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 Gimme Tha Power?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 5, 17, 25, 33, 37 and 6 more.

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