POSSESSION · Melanie Martinez

65 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 98% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-32 and 34-65 -- 98.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 85 BPM
POSSESSION · BAR 9
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars across 2 sections: 57 keep time and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-65.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is POSSESSION?

85 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 POSSESSION hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 3 exercises over 2 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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