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Over Stepping · Belmont

EXERCISE 7 OF 43
9-bar fill at bar 1
17 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART BF
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesIBFCBBZFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Over Stepping on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 3:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
72/100

snare through bars 1-22, hi-hat through bars 23-24, ride through bars 25-33, snare through bars 34-46, hi-hat through bars 47-49 and snare through bars 50-52, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 62-64 and 67-68 -- 5.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    62
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x-----x-x-------xxx-x---x-x---|
Over Stepping -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- BF, CB -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part BF -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part BF and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part BF and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Over Stepping?

102 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 Over Stepping hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Over Stepping?

14 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED