Body Language · Queen

152 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 135 BPM, 6:38 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
6:38
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 72% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-27, 30-33 and 35-60, and 2 more places -- 71.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BODY LANGUAGE · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 77 and 78.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 77-78 · LANDS ON BAR 79 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 6 sections: 95 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 53 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-60.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK 2
5 groovesBS6ES1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Body Language?

135 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Language hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 6:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Language?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 77 and 78.

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