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Power Trip · Chimaira

EXERCISE 13 OF 50
Join Part B to Part F (bars 26-28)
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0 / 50 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART F
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 10
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Power Trip on drums

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.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
77/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-3, snare through bars 4-11, hi-hat through bars 12-18, snare through bars 19-27, hi-hat through bars 28-36 and snare through bars 37-52, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    12
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x-----------x---|
BD |x-----x-x---x-------x---x-------|
Power Trip -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, M -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-8 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 28-44 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-56 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 57-77 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED