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10538 Overture · Electric Light Orchestra

EXERCISE 32 OF 56
5-bar fill at bar 74
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0 / 56 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 10538 Overture on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
5:26
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-31, toms through bars 32-36, ride through bars 37-43, silence through bars 44-50 and ride through bars 51-73, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x-x-x---|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
10538 Overture -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- C -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-69 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 74-101 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through Part X -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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