Softpower · Bilderbuch

140 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36, 38-40 and 42-44, and 6 more places -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
SOFTPOWER · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 21, 30, 37, 41, 45, 67 and 9 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 18 sections: 86 keep time, 15 are fills, 1 is a stop and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-61.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART S3
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART S
PART V
PART K
BREAK
12 groovesGKFCS1+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Softpower?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Softpower 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Softpower?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 21, 30, 37, 41, 45, 67 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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