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Powercore · Nekrogoblikonn

Powercore · Nekrogoblikonn
EXERCISE 5 OF 66
Fill at bar 3, 15, 51 and 63 (a small one)
69 / 191 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Powercore on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
53/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33, snare through bars 34-55, toms through bars 56-57 and snare through bars 58-66, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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, B -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA (a two-bar phrase) -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-181 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part B -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 65-77 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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