Power · Helloween

185 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 3:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 19 and 21-35, and 13 more places -- 40.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 220 BPM
POWER · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 20, 44, 51, 52, 60, 62 and 15 more.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 220 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 17 sections: 80 keep time, 21 are fills and 69 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 94-98.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 6
PART J
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEJCFA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Power?

220 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 Power hard to play on drums?

64 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 12 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 Power?

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 20, 44, 51, 52, 60, 62 and 15 more.

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