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Over The Wall · Testament

EXERCISE 11 OF 49
Groove G -- Part G
109 / 179 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART B
PART G
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Over The Wall on drums

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.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
80/100

snare through bars 2-19, hi-hat through bars 20-108, toms through bars 109-111, snare through bars 112-119, ride through bars 120-137 and toms through bars 138-140, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-ooo-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xxxxx---x---|
Over The Wall -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 13, 105, 107, 109, 111 and 12 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 -- H -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-51 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 52-110 -- 9 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 4 and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and Part V -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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