Overkill · Men At Work

125 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockElectronic120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-37, 39-60 and 69-91, and 2 more places -- 75.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 122 BPM
OVERKILL · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 108.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 108 · LANDS ON BAR 109
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 5 sections: 118 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-60.

PART B
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCEBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Overkill?

122 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 Overkill hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Overkill?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 108.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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