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Blessed and Possessed · Powerwolf

EXERCISE 5 OF 65
Groove D -- Part D
96 / 212 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT
PART D
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 4
PART S
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHGDSN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 9
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blessed and Possessed on drums

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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
212
LENGTH
5:08
DIFFICULTY
71/100

ride through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-42, snare through bars 43-58, hi-hat through bars 59-64, snare through bars 65-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-72, and 21 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    59
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Blessed and Possessed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-45 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 50-106 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 103-138 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and the Chorus 4 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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