Power And The Passion · Midnight Oil

219 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 5:45 of playing, on crash, snare and floor tom.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
219
LENGTH
5:45
DIFFICULTY
16/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-35, 50-84 and 99-123, and 2 more places -- 98.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 152 BPM
POWER AND THE PASSION · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 219.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 219
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

219 bars across 7 sections: 176 keep time, 1 is a fill and 42 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-163.

CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK 3
OUTRO
4 groovesAS2S4S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Power And The Passion?

152 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 Power And The Passion hard to play on drums?

16 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

219 bars, about 5:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare and floor tom. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

How many fills are in Power And The Passion?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 219.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 219 BARS ANALYSED
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