Overthrow · Veil Of Maya

123 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 3:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-42 and 79-94 -- 30.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 137 BPM
OVERTHROW · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 10, 23, 24, 26, 65 and 4 more.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 15 sections: 78 keep time, 10 are fills, 7 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-43.

PART D
PART B
CHORUS
PART K
BREAK
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART AD
OUTRO
13 groovesHBDS6O+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Overthrow?

137 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 Overthrow hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Overthrow?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 10, 23, 24, 26, 65 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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