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Power And The Passion · Midnight Oil

EXERCISE 1 OF 9
Groove A -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Power And The Passion on drums

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

16 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
219
LENGTH
5:45
DIFFICULTY
16/100

toms through bars 1-35, silence through bars 36-49, toms through bars 50-84, silence through bars 85-98, toms through bars 99-163 and silence through bars 164-177, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x-------x---|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
FT |x-------x-------|
Power And The Passion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- A -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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