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Hollow Bodies · Blessthefall

EXERCISE 1 OF 83
Groove K -- Chorus
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PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART O
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART AD
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKVFOAL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 9
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hollow Bodies on drums

155 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 4:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
4:01
DIFFICULTY
55/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-23, toms through bars 24-25, snare through bars 26-39, toms through bars 40-45 and snare through bars 46-71, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 28 and 30, and 19 more places -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x--x--x---------|
Hollow Bodies -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 13, 17, 21 and 49 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- K, V -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 30-46 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hollow Bodies?

154 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Hollow Bodies hard to play on drums?

55 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 4:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

How many fills are in Hollow Bodies?

23 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 13, 17, 21 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED