Overkill · Riot

207 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 4:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
207
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44-56, 59-72 and 80-91, and 1 more place -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 174 BPM
OVERKILL · BAR 44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 20 and 34 more.

LOOP · 174 BPM
BARS 10-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

207 bars across 26 sections: 123 keep time, 40 are fills, 14 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-72.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART AK
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
18 groovesVAKYAN+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Overkill?

174 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Overkill hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

207 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Overkill?

18 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 20 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 207 BARS ANALYSED
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