Hollow Bodies Live Drum · Blessthefall

153 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:57 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 18 more places -- 13.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
HOLLOW BODIES LIVE DRUM · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 15, 16, 20 and 49 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 16 sections: 72 keep time, 55 are fills, 7 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 107-113.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART X
PART AK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesFAAPAKK+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hollow Bodies Live Drum?

155 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 Hollow Bodies Live Drum 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?

153 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Hollow Bodies Live Drum?

23 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 15, 16, 20 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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