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Blessed Possessed · Powerwolf

EXERCISE 6 OF 51
Groove C -- Part C
107 / 220 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT
PART C
CHORUS
PART N
PART C
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFNCUA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blessed Possessed on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
220
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
72/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-21, snare through bars 22-26, hi-hat through bars 27-42, snare through bars 43-58, hi-hat through bars 59-78 and kick and crashes through bars 79-80, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    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 Possessed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 138-161 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 153-180 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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