The Power Of Love · Céline Dion

141 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
27/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 37-47, 49 and 51, and 6 more places -- 27.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
THE POWER OF LOVE · BARS 37-38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 83, 84, 85 and 86.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 83-86 · LANDS ON BAR 87 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 6 sections: 125 keep time, 4 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-82.

PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDJAKH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Power Of Love?

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 The Power Of Love hard to play on drums?

27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Power Of Love?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 83, 84, 85 and 86.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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