Power To The Music · Mötley Crüe

178 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-33, 35-37 and 55-57, and 9 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
POWER TO THE MUSIC · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 4, 12, 14, 18, 30, 34 and 19 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

178 bars across 13 sections: 132 keep time, 25 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 163-178.

PART C
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART AD
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesMCATVK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Power To The Music?

140 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 To The Music hard to play on drums?

49 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 5:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 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 To The Music?

15 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 4, 12, 14, 18, 30, 34 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED
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