Forever Overdose · Amira Elfeky

84 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 85 BPM, 3:04 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-17, 19-21 and 39-41, and 5 more places -- 39.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 85 BPM
FOREVER OVERDOSE · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 18, 22, 42, 46, 54, 56 and 11 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 9 sections: 30 keep time, 17 are fills, 3 are stops and 33 are silent.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART S6
OUTRO
7 groovesBS1S3S6D+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Forever Overdose?

85 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Forever Overdose hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 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 Forever Overdose?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 18, 22, 42, 46, 54, 56 and 11 more.

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