Powershifter · Fear Factory

204 bars at 212 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalElectronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
212 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
204
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 81-82, 85-86 and 89-90, and 20 more places -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 212 BPM
POWERSHIFTER · BAR 81
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 9, 13, 14 and 33 more.

LOOP · 212 BPM
BARS 1-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 212 BPM
BARS 22-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 212 BPM
BARS 57-59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

204 bars across 20 sections: 130 keep time, 39 are fills, 1 is a stop and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-90.

PART A
PART K
PART K
CHORUS
PART Q
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
OUTRO
13 groovesNKQEI+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Powershifter?

212 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 Powershifter hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 83 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 19 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Powershifter?

10 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 9, 13, 14 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 204 BARS ANALYSED
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