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I Am Possessed (with drums) · Carpathian Forest

EXERCISE 19 OF 78
Run S91 · Part S9 (bars 64-71)
93 / 215 BARS COVERED
0 / 78 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S9
PART E
PART S9
PART S23
OUTRO
17 groovesCEUZH+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 4
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Am Possessed (with drums) on drums

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.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
226 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
215
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
82/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-22, toms through bars 23-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32 and snare through bars 33-40, and 26 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
I Am Possessed (with drums) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-72 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part S9 and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 72-96 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 96-124 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and the Chorus 4 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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