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Overcompensate · Twenty One Pilots

EXERCISE 1 OF 31
Groove J -- Chorus
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0 / 31 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Overcompensate on drums

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.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
69 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-64, silence through bars 65-67 and hi-hat through bars 68-84.

The beat

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.

    30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-xxxxx-X-xxxxx-|
SD |xx--x--x-x--x--x|
BD |x-x-------xx-x--|
Overcompensate -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- J, B -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-45 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-73 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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