Over The Wall · Testament

179 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-47, 56-63 and 72-86, and 2 more places -- 36.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 220 BPM
OVER THE WALL · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 13, 105, 107, 109, 111 and 12 more.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 105 · LANDS ON BAR 106
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 107 · LANDS ON BAR 108
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 109 · LANDS ON BAR 110

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

179 bars across 15 sections: 117 keep time, 18 are fills, 19 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-47.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART R
PART V
OUTRO
BREAK
9 groovesHIVBR+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Over The Wall?

220 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 Over The Wall hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 3:25 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 Over The Wall?

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 13, 105, 107, 109, 111 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED
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