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

Overkill · Motorhead, IAN KILMISTER, EDWARD ALAN CLARKE, PHILIP JOHN TAYLOR
EXERCISE 1 OF 49
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 49 PASSED · 107 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBMYS7S5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Overkill on drums

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

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
5:40
DIFFICULTY
78/100

snare through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-92, snare through bars 93-101, kick and crashes through bars 102-104, snare through bars 105-110 and hi-hat through bars 111-133, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 1-132 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through the Break 2 and Part Y -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 136-164 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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