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Over My Head (Better Off Dead) · Sum 41

EXERCISE 21 OF 57
Join Part G to Part I (bars 19-21)
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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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Over My Head (Better Off Dead) on drums

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.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-27, ride through bars 28-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-54, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Over My Head (Better Off Dead) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through the Intro and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 17-32 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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.

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