Possessed · James Harvey

44 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 1:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
44
LENGTH
1:18
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-32 -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
POSSESSED · BAR 17
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

44 bars across 4 sections: 33 keep time and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-32.

CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCDEGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Possessed?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Possessed hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

44 bars, about 1:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 44 BARS ANALYSED
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