Body Hammer · Fear Factory

210 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 5:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalElectronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 26-28 and 30-32, and 15 more places -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BODY HAMMER · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 20, 21, 25, 33, 41, 45 and 20 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 94 · LANDS ON BAR 95 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

210 bars across 22 sections: 117 keep time, 26 are fills, 33 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 133-143.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART M
PART L
PART J
PART S
PART X
15 groovesGSXML+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Body Hammer?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Body Hammer hard to play on drums?

63 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 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

210 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Body Hammer?

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 20, 21, 25, 33, 41, 45 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 210 BARS ANALYSED
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