Over My Head (Better Off Dead) · Sum 41

113 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 2:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 29-31 and 33-35, and 6 more places -- 32.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 184 BPM
OVER MY HEAD (BETTER OFF DEAD) · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 27, 28, 32 and 16 more.

LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 13 sections: 76 keep time, 22 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 89-95.

PART G
PART I
CHORUS
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBGISAB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Over My Head (Better Off Dead)?

184 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Over My Head (Better Off Dead) hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Over My Head (Better Off Dead)?

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 27, 28, 32 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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