Bodies · Smashing Pumpkins

111 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-10, 13 and 15-19, and 13 more places -- 58.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BODIES · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 12, 14, 20, 22, 28, 34 and 20 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 7 sections: 68 keep time, 26 are fills, 2 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
PART R
OUTRO
5 groovesBRS3S1AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bodies?

110 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?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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?

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 12, 14, 20, 22, 28, 34 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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