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Power · Helloween

EXERCISE 4 OF 56
Groove C -- Part C
76 / 185 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 42 BARS LIT
PART A
PART F
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART J
CHORUS 4
PART C
CHORUS 5
PART J
CHORUS 6
PART J
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEJCFA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Power on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
64/100

snare through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, ride through bars 13-17, hi-hat through bars 18-36 and ride through bars 37-44, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Power -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED