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Overdose · Memphis May Fire

EXERCISE 4 OF 41
Groove F -- Part F (a two-bar phrase)
48 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART F, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Overdose on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-14, hi-hat through bars 15-18, snare through bars 19-41, hi-hat through bars 42-44 and snare through bars 45-46, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x--x--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 25 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 20, 22, 26 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, T -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 11-27 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-62 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Bars 76-83 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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