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Forever Overdose · Amira Elfeky

EXERCISE 1 OF 31
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART S6
OUTRO
7 groovesBS1S3S6D+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Forever Overdose on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-14, snare through bars 15-24, silence through bars 25-38, snare through bars 39-48, silence through bars 49-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-60, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    15
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x---------x-------------|
Forever Overdose -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part S6 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 53-81 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED