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Body Bag · Machine Gun Kelly

EXERCISE 9 OF 30
Groove F
43 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Body Bag on drums

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.

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
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 1-47, snare through bars 48-56, silence through bars 57-60, snare through bars 61-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-76.

The beat

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.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x-x---x---x--|
Body Bag -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- D, A -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 23-31 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 30-47 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED