A Body Farm · Cattle Decapitation

192 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 3:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 26-27 and 30-32, and 8 more places -- 13.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 240 BPM
A BODY FARM · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

31 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14 and 68 more.

LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 240 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15

27 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

192 bars across 14 sections: 82 keep time, 74 are fills, 18 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 165-176.

PART A
CHORUS
PART Y
PART AC
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesNAACUBJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Body Farm?

240 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is A Body Farm hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 22 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in A Body Farm?

31 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14 and 68 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED
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