Overkill · Motörhead

156 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 83% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-79, 81-83 and 85-87, and 9 more places -- 82.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 125 BPM
OVERKILL · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 93, 94, 95, 121, 122, 123 and 4 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 93-95 · LANDS ON BAR 96 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 149-152 · LANDS ON BAR 153 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 3 sections: 144 keep time, 10 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-92.

CHORUS
3 groovesAS2S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Overkill?

125 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?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Overkill?

2 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 93, 94, 95, 121, 122, 123 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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