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.

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 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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|

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

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.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
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.