The Possession · King Diamond

111 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-22, 25-26 and 41-43, and 3 more places -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 137 BPM
THE POSSESSION · BARS 21-22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 20, 32, 36, 45, 46 and 16 more.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BARS 45-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BARS 52-55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 15 sections: 62 keep time, 22 are fills, 9 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-10.

PART C
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART U
PART AB
PART AL
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFKABALC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Possession?

137 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 The Possession hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 The Possession?

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 20, 32, 36, 45, 46 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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