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EXERCISE 1 OF 98
Groove W -- Chorus 2
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0 / 98 PASSED · 25 BARS LIT
PART B
PART A
PART O
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
18 groovesWZARS25+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 11
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Body Bag on drums

212 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 6:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
212
LENGTH
6:03
DIFFICULTY
68/100

ride through bars 1-32, hi-hat through bars 33-36, ride through bars 37-48, hi-hat through bars 49-56, ride through bars 57-63 and toms through bars 64-66, and 21 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 67-71, 81-87 and 147-151, and 1 more place -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    67
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Body Bag -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 12, 15, 16 and 55 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 76 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 -- W -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z, A -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part A -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 14-46 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Body Bag?

152 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?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

212 bars, about 6:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 22 sittings, about 27 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?

21 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 12, 15, 16 and 55 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 212 BARS ANALYSED