Blessed and Possessed · Powerwolf

212 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 5:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
212
LENGTH
5:08
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 22 more places -- 29.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BLESSED AND POSSESSED · BAR 59
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 2, 4, 15, 23, 26, 34 and 17 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

212 bars across 18 sections: 135 keep time, 27 are fills, 29 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-52.

PART D
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART N
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART S
OUTRO
9 groovesHGDSN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blessed and Possessed?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Blessed and Possessed hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

212 bars, about 5:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 Blessed and Possessed?

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 2, 4, 15, 23, 26, 34 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 212 BARS ANALYSED
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