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A Body Farm · Cattle Decapitation

EXERCISE 4 OF 102
2-bar fill at bar 28
30 / 192 BARS COVERED
0 / 102 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 31
LAND · 31
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 9
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Body Farm on drums

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.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
78/100

ride through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-12, hi-hat through bars 13-27, toms through bars 28-29, hi-hat through bars 30-35 and toms through bars 36-37, and 27 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    22
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
A Body Farm -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 70 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 -- N -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part A -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 22-120 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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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