Body Bag · Machine Gun Kelly

76 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 2:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 33-35, and 4 more places -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BODY BAG · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 76.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 76
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 11 sections: 60 keep time, 1 is a fill and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-11.

PART A
CHORUS
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART N
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDANKJ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Body Bag?

111 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 Body Bag 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 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 76.

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