Power Trip · Chimaira

127 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-14, 16-18 and 28-30, and 3 more places -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
POWER TRIP · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 7, 48, 60, 74, 85, 101 and 1 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 19 sections: 81 keep time, 7 are fills, 18 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-35.

PART F
PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART V
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesMDFBV+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Power Trip?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Power Trip hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 Trip?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 7, 48, 60, 74, 85, 101 and 1 more.

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