Ironbound · Overkill

278 bars at 198 BPM -- fast, and 5:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
198 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
278
LENGTH
5:37
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-26, 28-30 and 48-50, and 6 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 198 BPM
IRONBOUND · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 10, 11, 27, 31, 35, 47 and 44 more.

LOOP · 198 BPM
BARS 10-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

278 bars across 30 sections: 177 keep time, 53 are fills, 7 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-26.

PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART AC
PART AN
CHORUS 3
15 groovesIFLRAN+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ironbound?

198 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Ironbound hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

278 bars, about 5:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 21 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 Ironbound?

20 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 10, 11, 27, 31, 35, 47 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 278 BARS ANALYSED
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