Overcome · As I Lay Dying

187 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
187
LENGTH
6:14
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 64-70, 96-110 and 144-150, and 2 more places -- 29.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
OVERCOME · BARS 64-65
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 5, 12, 13, 20, 21, 27 and 39 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

187 bars across 15 sections: 80 keep time, 45 are fills, 36 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 160-174.

PART S4
PART K
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AH
CHORUS 3
13 groovesUKS4AHAB+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Overcome?

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 Overcome hard to play on drums?

54 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

187 bars, about 6:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 Overcome?

22 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 5, 12, 13, 20, 21, 27 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 187 BARS ANALYSED
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