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Possibilities Of An Impossible Existence · Whitechapel

EXERCISE 10 OF 39
Groove H
83 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, CHORUS, PART G
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART I
PART B
PART I
CHORUS
PART B
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
12 groovesMICBS1+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Possibilities Of An Impossible Existence on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
78/100

silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-14, toms through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-25, snare through bars 26-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-41, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    50
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Possibilities Of An Impossible Existence -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- M -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, G -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part C and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 31-66 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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