I Am Possessed (with drums) · Carpathian Forest

215 bars at 226 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
226 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
215
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 25-32 and 45-48, and 2 more places -- 19.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 226 BPM
I AM POSSESSED (WITH DRUMS) · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 16, 23, 24, 70, 71 and 19 more.

LOOP · 226 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 226 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 226 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 226 BPM
BARS 70-71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

215 bars across 29 sections: 119 keep time, 25 are fills, 10 are stops and 41 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-63.

PART E
PART S23
OUTRO
17 groovesCEUZH+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Am Possessed (with drums)?

226 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 I Am Possessed (with drums) hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

215 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 18 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 I Am Possessed (with drums)?

16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 16, 23, 24, 70, 71 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 215 BARS ANALYSED
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