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Overture · Rush

EXERCISE 31 OF 71
Run R1 · Part R (bars 33-44)
64 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R
CHORUS
PART G
PART R
PART S14
CHORUS 2
PART AP
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
17 groovesABBAPRS14+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Overture on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
67/100

snare through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-10, snare through bars 11-18, toms through bars 19-22, silence through bars 23-24 and snare through bars 25-28, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 41-43 -- 7.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x---------------x-------|
HH |----------------o---------------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---x---x-------x---|
Overture -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 28 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- R -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AY -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AP -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-26 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-33 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-53 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 54-66 -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Overture?

120 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 Overture hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Overture?

18 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 28 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED