Possession · Sarah Mclachlan

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 3:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-14, 29-36 and 41-44, and 3 more places -- 62.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 97 BPM
POSSESSION · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 10 sections: 74 keep time, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-88.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBCEDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Possession?

97 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 Possession hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED
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