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Softpower · Bilderbuch

Softpower · Bilderbuch
EXERCISE 29 OF 54
Join Chorus 2 to Part F (bars 69-71)
86 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART F
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART S3
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART B
PART S
PART V
PART K
BREAK
12 groovesGKFCS1+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Softpower on drums

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.

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
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-22, silence through bars 23-30, snare through bars 31-45, hi-hat through bars 46-70 and snare through bars 71-80, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x----x--x---|
BD |x------x--x-----|
Softpower -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 21, 30, 37, 41, 45, 67 and 9 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-78 -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 10-84 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 30-46 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 42-70 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 69-84 -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 80-92 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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