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The Power · Three Days Grace

EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBMFOS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Power on drums

104 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
46/100

snare through bars 3-5, hi-hat through bars 6-30, snare through bars 31-40, hi-hat through bars 41-49, toms through bars 50-51 and snare through bars 52-56, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 23-37, and 7 more places -- 52.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 70, 82 and 104.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- B, G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 77-83 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Power?

117 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 hard to play on drums?

46 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 The Power?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 70, 82 and 104.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED