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Overdose · AC/DC

EXERCISE 10 OF 47
Fill at bar 16 (a small one)
111 / 185 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART S3
PART B
PART S3
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
10 groovesFUNBI+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 4
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Overdose on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
5:53
DIFFICULTY
57/100

ride through bar 1, silence through bars 2-3, kick and crashes through bars 4-27, silence through bars 28-32, hi-hat through bars 33-176 and kick and crashes through bars 177-185.

The beat

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.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Overdose -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- F, N -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part S3 and Part B -- 7 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 60-120 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 32-80 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 97-125 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 121-180 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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