Overkill · Motorhead, IAN KILMISTER, EDWARD ALAN CLARKE, PHILIP JOHN TAYLOR

188 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 5:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
5:40
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-22 and 24-26, and 20 more places -- 58.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 132 BPM
OVERKILL · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 1, 9, 23, 27, 45, 47 and 34 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

188 bars across 9 sections: 130 keep time, 40 are fills, 9 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-44.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBMYS7S5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Overkill?

132 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?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

188 bars, about 5:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Overkill?

16 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 1, 9, 23, 27, 45, 47 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 188 BARS ANALYSED
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