Overdose · Memphis May Fire

106 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 27-29, and 13 more places -- 43.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 138 BPM
OVERDOSE · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 20, 22, 26 and 19 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 8 sections: 66 keep time, 25 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-13.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCFTRFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Overdose?

138 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?

59 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 25 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 20, 22, 26 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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