Override · Slipknot

175 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-59, 85-99 and 138-152 -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
OVERRIDE · BAR 45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 43, 44, 60, 83, 84, 100 and 24 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 100-113 · LANDS ON BAR 114 · PLAYED 14 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 129-133 · LANDS ON BAR 134 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

175 bars across 12 sections: 113 keep time, 30 are fills, 3 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-35.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART S
CHORUS 3
8 groovesGBSDS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Override?

135 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 Override hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Override?

7 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 43, 44, 60, 83, 84, 100 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 175 BARS ANALYSED
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