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Overheat · Muzzle Brake

EXERCISE 20 OF 50
Groove L -- Part L
50 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART G
PART J
PART L
PART P
PART U
PART W
OUTRO
9 groovesDAAGPW+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Overheat on drums

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.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
67/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-10, toms through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-18, toms through bars 19-20 and snare through bars 21-36, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    21
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------x-----------------x-----------x-----|
Overheat -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Bars 38-86 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part G and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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