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Power Of Love · Huey Lewis And The News

EXERCISE 1 OF 25
Groove B -- Part B
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PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesEBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Power Of Love on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
48/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-6, 30-36 and 51-57, and 3 more places -- 36.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 7, 11, 21, 29, 37 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- B, E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Power Of Love?

119 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 Of Love hard to play on drums?

48 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Of Love?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 7, 11, 21, 29, 37 and 8 more.

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