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Body Hammer · Fear Factory

EXERCISE 3 OF 71
Groove M -- Part M
88 / 210 BARS COVERED
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COUNT-IN
PART B
PART M
PART L
PART J
PART S
PART M
PART L
PART X
OUTRO
15 groovesGSXML+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 16
LINK · 7
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Body Hammer on drums

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.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-37, hi-hat through bars 38-45, ride through bars 46-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-62, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- G, L -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-37 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  6. Bars 49-107 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-205 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 68-95 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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