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Overkill · Men At Work
EXERCISE 4 OF 16
Run B1 · Part B (bars 1-7)
99 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCEBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Overkill on drums

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

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
44/100

hi-hat through bars 1-60, ride through bars 61-68, hi-hat through bars 69-114 and ride through bars 115-125.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Overkill -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 57-72 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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