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Overflow Official · Polaris

EXERCISE 11 OF 76
Run C1 · Part C (bars 9-12)
63 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 76 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
COUNT-IN
PART C
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 2
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Overflow Official on drums

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.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-22, ride through bars 23-24, snare through bars 25-38, hi-hat through bars 39-46 and snare through bars 47-50, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|
Overflow Official -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- L -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U, I -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 13-31 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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