Powercore · Nekrogoblikonn

191 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:50 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 39-41 and 43-45, and 13 more places -- 24.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
POWERCORE · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 9, 13, 15 and 24 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

191 bars across 9 sections: 101 keep time, 30 are fills, 46 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-93.

PART B
PART H
PART B
PART U
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesSHBYL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Powercore?

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

Is Powercore hard to play on drums?

53 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

191 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Powercore?

20 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 9, 13, 15 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 191 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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