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Possession · Whitechapel

EXERCISE 6 OF 73
Run C1 · Part C (bars 1-9)
47 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
PART S2
PART F
PART I
PART U
PART AD
PART P
PART AG
OUTRO 2
16 groovesAOPUADAG+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 3
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Possession on drums

143 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
75/100

snare through bars 1-10, silence through bars 11-17, snare through bars 18-35, ride through bars 36-41, hi-hat through bars 42-49 and snare through bars 50-73, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 112-114, 116-118 and 128-130, and 3 more places -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    112                                                              113
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x-------------------------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|--------------------------------x-------x---x-------x---x-------|
BD |x---x---x---x-----------x-------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

13 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- AO -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-19 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part F and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 26-44 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Possession?

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 Possession hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Possession?

13 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED