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Bodies In Flight · Biffy Clyro

EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove C -- Part C
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PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART E
BREAK
6 groovesS10BECF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bodies In Flight on drums

110 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 140 BPM, 4:43 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-9, hi-hat through bars 10-19, snare through bars 20-27, toms through bars 28-35 and snare through bars 36-43, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-6, 8-9 and 20-27, and 4 more places -- 36.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1...........2...........3...........4...........5...........6...........
SD |------------------------x-----------------------------------x-----------|
BD |x-------x-------x-------------------x-------x-------x-------------------|
Bodies In Flight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 11 and 45.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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, B -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-31 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 28-70 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Bodies In Flight?

140 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 In Flight hard to play on drums?

62 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Bodies In Flight?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 11 and 45.

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