Possibilities Of An Impossible Existence · Whitechapel

135 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-65, 102-108 and 110-116, and 7 more places -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
POSSIBILITIES OF AN IMPOSSIBLE EXISTENCE · BAR 50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 15, 16, 25, 41, 49, 69 and 1 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 18 sections: 92 keep time, 7 are fills, 11 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 100-116.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART I
PART B
PART I
CHORUS
PART B
PART I
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
12 groovesMICBS1+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Possibilities Of An Impossible Existence?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Possibilities Of An Impossible Existence hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 Possibilities Of An Impossible Existence?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 15, 16, 25, 41, 49, 69 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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