Battle · Overkill

168 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
5:34
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 49-51, and 8 more places -- 19.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BATTLE · BAR 57
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 23, 29, 32 and 24 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 13-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars across 22 sections: 104 keep time, 30 are fills, 6 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 114-121.

PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART W
PART AB
PART AG
PART AI
OUTRO
15 groovesMABQWAG+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Battle?

120 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 Battle hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 5:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Battle?

14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 23, 29, 32 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED
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