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Power of Love · Guardian

EXERCISE 23 OF 54
Groove Q
154 / 224 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART O
PART D
PART S
PART G
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesIDGSO+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Power of Love on drums

224 bars at 198 BPM -- fast, and 4:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
198 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
224
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-8, hi-hat through bars 9-56, ride through bars 57-64, hi-hat through bars 65-100 and ride through bars 101-104, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39, 42-48 and 106, and 14 more places -- 25.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |----x-----------|
Power of Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 7, 8, 36, 40, 90, 120 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- I, D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-37 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 54-146 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 56-217 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part O and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 72-116 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Power of Love?

198 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 of Love hard to play on drums?

45 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

224 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 Power of Love?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 7, 8, 36, 40, 90, 120 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 224 BARS ANALYSED