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Body Language · Queen

EXERCISE 1 OF 10
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 10 PASSED · 71 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK 2
5 groovesBS6ES1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Body Language on drums

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

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
6:38
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-76, ride through bars 77-79, hi-hat through bars 80-82, snare through bars 83-104 and silence through bars 105-152.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x---x-------x-----|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Body Language -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- B -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  2. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED