Overflow · Linkin Park

47 bars, 2:48, at 67 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

MetalPopUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
67 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
47
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 70% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-12, 31-37 and 39-46 -- 69.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 67 BPM
OVERFLOW · BARS 5-6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 30 and 38.

LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

47 bars across 6 sections: 28 keep time, 2 are fills and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-47.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBS3DFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Overflow?

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

Is Overflow hard to play on drums?

52 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

47 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Overflow?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 30 and 38.

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