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Maximum Power · Antares

EXERCISE 1 OF 44
Groove C -- Chorus
0 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART E
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART M
CHORUS 3
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCS10MHJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Maximum Power on drums

125 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
53/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-51, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 38-44 and 72-75, and 1 more place -- 22.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 28, 35, 36 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, M -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-29 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-41 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-63 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 60-81 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Maximum Power?

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

Is Maximum Power hard to play on drums?

53 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?

125 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Maximum Power?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 28, 35, 36 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED