I Will Possess Your Heart (Complete) · Death Cab for Cutie

237 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 7:01 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
237
LENGTH
7:01
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 25 more places -- 38.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
I WILL POSSESS YOUR HEART (COMPLETE) · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 237.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 237
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

237 bars across 10 sections: 219 keep time, 1 is a fill and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-68.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBJYWM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Will Possess Your Heart (Complete)?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 I Will Possess Your Heart (Complete) hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

237 bars, about 7:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 12 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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 Will Possess Your Heart (Complete)?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 237.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 237 BARS ANALYSED
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