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Overlord · Lamb Of God

EXERCISE 17 OF 70
Groove L
92 / 189 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART S
PART AF
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesBIKADS+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Overlord on drums

189 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 6:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
6:52
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-26, ride through bars 27-34, snare through bars 35-42, hi-hat through bars 43-60 and ride through bars 61-68, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 18-23 and 36, and 12 more places -- 20.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----o-----o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |------------------x-----------------------------|
Overlord -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 16, 26, 34, 50, 60, 68 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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, F (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-165 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-51 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 43-76 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Overlord?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Overlord hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 6:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Overlord?

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 16, 26, 34, 50, 60, 68 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED