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Let The Bodies Hit The Floor · Drowning Pool

EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove D -- Chorus 2
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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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Let The Bodies Hit The Floor on drums

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.

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
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
55/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-5, snare through bars 6-10, ride through bars 11-13, snare through bars 14-17, hi-hat through bars 18-41 and snare through bars 42-45, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
Let The Bodies Hit The Floor -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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, E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part J and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-29 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 65-87 -- 9 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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