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Bodies · Smashing Pumpkins

EXERCISE 16 OF 40
Fill at bar 52 and 68
80 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
PART R
OUTRO
5 groovesBRS3S1AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bodies on drums

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.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-53, silence through bars 54-58, toms through bars 59-60, ride through bars 61-84 and toms through bars 85-92, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-xx-x--x--x|-x--x--x-x--x-xx|
BD |x-xx-x--x-xx--x-|x-xx-x--x-xx----|
Bodies -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 51-61 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 81-93 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 89-111 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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