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EXERCISE 21 OF 56
Join Part U to Chorus 2 (bars 35-37)
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CHORUS
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART Z
PART AJ
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesHZAHAJAY+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Over My Dead Body on drums

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.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
63/100

toms through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-23, toms through bars 24-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-39, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------X-----------X---|
BD |x---x---x---x-------x---x-------|
Over My Dead Body -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- H, Z -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-8 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-61 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 59-65 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED