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Possession · Sarah Mclachlan

Possession · Sarah Mclachlan
EXERCISE 3 OF 19
Groove C -- Part C
52 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBCEDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Possession on drums

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

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-88.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x-x--x--x|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Possession -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 20 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 39-51 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 50-68 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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