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Power To The Music · Mötley Crüe

EXERCISE 1 OF 73
Groove M -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Power To The Music on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 1-30, ride through bars 31-38, hi-hat through bars 39-54, ride through bars 55-70, kick and crashes through bars 71-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-88, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- M, C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AT -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-31 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part V -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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