10538 Overture · Electric Light Orchestra

148 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 5:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockElectronic90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
5:26
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 22 more places -- 46.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 108 BPM
10538 OVERTURE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 26, 30 and 31 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 11 sections: 78 keep time, 37 are fills, 7 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 142-147.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART X
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCXIAAS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 10538 Overture?

108 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 10538 Overture hard to play on drums?

66 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?

148 bars, about 5:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in 10538 Overture?

18 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 26, 30 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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