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Powerload · Disfear

Powerload · Disfear
EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 27 PASSED · 86 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBIGS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Powerload on drums

136 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:22 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-5, snare through bars 6-7, hi-hat through bars 8-9, snare through bars 10-11 and hi-hat through bars 12-13, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 16 more places -- 64.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 17, 19, 34, 35, 49, 51 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 66-73 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 71-84 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Powerload?

160 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 Powerload hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Powerload?

7 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 17, 19, 34, 35, 49, 51 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED