Overwound Music Box · 20-70

63 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
2:17
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-28 and 56-63 -- 58.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
OVERWOUND MUSIC BOX · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

63 bars across 9 sections: 44 keep time, 3 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-28.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBADS1G+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Overwound Music Box?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Overwound Music Box hard to play on drums?

29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 2:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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