Bodies · Drowning Pool

108 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 3:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 13-15 and 33-35, and 12 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 131 BPM
BODIES · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 32, 60, 76, 80, 84 and 3 more.

LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 11 sections: 81 keep time, 9 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-43.

PART A
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART C
OUTRO
7 groovesJHOBA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bodies?

131 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 Bodies hard to play on drums?

58 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 Bodies?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 32, 60, 76, 80, 84 and 3 more.

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