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Bodies · Drowning Pool

EXERCISE 3 OF 38
Groove H -- Part H (a two-bar phrase)
48 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bodies on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-9, ride through bars 10-12, snare through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-40 and snare through bars 41-44, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
Bodies -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- B, J -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 6-16 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-84 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 68-89 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED