Overcompensate · Twenty One Pilots

84 bars, 4:52, at 69 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndiePopUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
69 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-31, 34 and 36, and 4 more places -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 69 BPM
OVERCOMPENSATE · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 28, 41, 42, 43, 44, 49 and 15 more.

LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 69 BPM
BARS 41-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 69 BPM
BARS 49-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 69 BPM
BARS 58-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 8 sections: 46 keep time, 21 are fills, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-84.

PART B
PART E
PART B
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJBAS7E+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Overcompensate?

69 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Overcompensate hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Overcompensate?

5 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 28, 41, 42, 43, 44, 49 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED
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