Blessed Possessed · Powerwolf

220 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 5:20 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
220
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-22, 27-33 and 35-41, and 11 more places -- 39% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 15, 23, 26, 34, 42, 66 and 13 more.

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
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 144 · LANDS ON BAR 145

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

220 bars across 12 sections: 158 keep time, 24 are fills, 28 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 187-200.

CHORUS
PART N
PART U
OUTRO
7 groovesFNCUA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blessed 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 Possessed hard to play on drums?

72 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?

220 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Possessed?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 15, 23, 26, 34, 42, 66 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 220 BARS ANALYSED
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