Overflow Official · Polaris

137 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31, 33 and 35-36, and 9 more places -- 14.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 146 BPM
OVERFLOW OFFICIAL · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 23, 24, 28, 30, 32, 34 and 29 more.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 17 sections: 74 keep time, 35 are fills, 3 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-20.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART R
PART U
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AD
PART U
OUTRO 2
11 groovesLIADUR+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Overflow Official?

146 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 Overflow Official hard to play on drums?

59 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 Overflow Official?

18 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 23, 24, 28, 30, 32, 34 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
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