ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dispossession V2 on drums

119 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 135 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 119
LENGTH: 3:27
DIFFICULTY: 76/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-11, toms through bars 12-13, snare through bars 14-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28 and snare through bars 29-37, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 81-82, 85 and 91-92, and 3 more places -- 9.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    81                                   82
    1...........2...........3........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------|x--------x--x-----------x-----------x-----x-----|
SD |------------------------x-----------|------------------------------------x-----------|
BD |------x--------x--------x--x--x--x--|x--------x--x--------x--------x-----------x-----|

Dispossession V2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 8, 12, 13, 16, 20, 24 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- AL -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
Through Part A and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
Through Part B and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Bars 13-21 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part M -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
Through Part M and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
and 10 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Dispossession V2?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Dispossession V2 hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Dispossession V2?

16 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 8, 12, 13, 16, 20, 24 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED