Body Bag · I Prevail

82 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-17, 19-21 and 35-37, and 3 more places -- 22.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BODY BAG · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 18, 22 and 14 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 11 sections: 43 keep time, 20 are fills, 3 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-33.

PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
8 groovesLCPHAK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Body Bag?

105 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Body Bag hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Body Bag?

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 18, 22 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED
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