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

EXERCISE 4 OF 33
Groove C
143 / 237 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBJYWM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Will Possess Your Heart (Complete) on drums

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.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
237
LENGTH
7:01
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-237.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x----g--x--g|
BD |x---------x-----|
I Will Possess Your Heart (Complete) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Bars 48-137 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 125-133 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Bars 137-143 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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