Jock Powerviolence · Weekend Nachos

25 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 0:45 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
25
LENGTH
0:45
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-9 and 11-13 -- 24% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
JOCK POWERVIOLENCE · BARS 7-8
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 18, 22 and 24.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

25 bars across 3 sections: 18 keep time, 4 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-15.

PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDIBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Jock Powerviolence?

130 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 Jock Powerviolence hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

25 bars, about 0:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Jock Powerviolence?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 18, 22 and 24.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 25 BARS ANALYSED
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