The Power of the Ancient Force · Twilight Force

157 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
5:01
DIFFICULTY
95/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 20-26 and 36-37, and 15 more places -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 125 BPM
THE POWER OF THE ANCIENT FORCE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 11, 19, 42, 43, 47 and 12 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 42-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 19 sections: 104 keep time, 18 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 80-95.

PART B
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART B
PART F
PART L
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
6 groovesDBLFH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Power of the Ancient Force?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 the Ancient Force hard to play on drums?

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 87 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 5:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 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 The Power of the Ancient Force?

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 11, 19, 42, 43, 47 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED
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