Possessed · Gojira

183 bars at 206 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
206 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20, 22-23 and 26, and 11 more places -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 206 BPM
POSSESSED · BAR 40
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 17, 19, 21 and 35 more.

LOOP · 206 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 206 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 206 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 206 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

183 bars across 15 sections: 93 keep time, 41 are fills and 31 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 89-102.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART S
PART Z
PART AE
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHZSAKB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Possessed?

206 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Possessed hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Possessed?

21 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 17, 19, 21 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED
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