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Body M/F Count · Body Count

EXERCISE 8 OF 16
Join Part G to Chorus 2 (bars 40-42)
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0 / 16 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDLGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Body M/F Count on drums

106 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-45, ride through bars 46-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-106.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-16 and 18-20, and 9 more places -- 59.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Body M/F Count -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- D, L -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 38-70 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Body M/F Count?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 M/F Count hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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