Overdose · AC/DC

185 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 5:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
5:53
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-43, 45-59 and 77-91, and 1 more place -- 32.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 126 BPM
OVERDOSE · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 16, 18, 60, 62, 63, 65 and 14 more.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BARS 62-63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 14 sections: 108 keep time, 20 are fills, 39 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-59.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
10 groovesFUNBI+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Overdose?

126 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Overdose hard to play on drums?

57 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 5:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Overdose?

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 16, 18, 60, 62, 63, 65 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED
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