Overheat · Muzzle Brake

101 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 2:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 29-31, and 1 more place -- 12.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
OVERHEAT · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 11, 12 and 13 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 9 sections: 51 keep time, 19 are fills, 20 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-92.

CHORUS
PART G
PART J
PART P
PART U
PART W
OUTRO
9 groovesDAAGPW+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Overheat?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Overheat hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Overheat?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 11, 12 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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