Let The Bodies Hit The Floor · Drowning Pool

109 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 14-16 and 34-36, and 12 more places -- 27.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 128 BPM
LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 5, 13, 33, 61, 77, 81 and 3 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 12 sections: 79 keep time, 9 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 98-109.

PART B
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDJOEB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Let The Bodies Hit The Floor?

128 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 Let The Bodies Hit The Floor 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Let The Bodies Hit The Floor?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 5, 13, 33, 61, 77, 81 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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