Over My Dead Body · Despised Icon

113 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 21, and 4 more places -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
OVER MY DEAD BODY · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 11 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 24-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 59-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 18 sections: 57 keep time, 17 are fills, 12 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-16.

CHORUS
PART Z
PART AJ
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesHZAHAJAY+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Over My Dead Body?

145 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 Over My Dead Body hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Over My Dead Body?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 11 more.

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