Abhorrent Contraception · Sanguisugabogg

167 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 4:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 67-71, 145-150 and 160-161, and 1 more place -- 10.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 148 BPM
ABHORRENT CONTRACEPTION · BARS 67-68
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 21, 23, 27, 28, 32, 38 and 24 more.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

167 bars across 16 sections: 113 keep time, 30 are fills, 4 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-14.

PART B
CHORUS
PART S
PART AH
PART S
12 groovesDSBAHN+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Abhorrent Contraception?

148 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 Abhorrent Contraception hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 26 sittings, about 25 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.

How many fills are in Abhorrent Contraception?

16 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 21, 23, 27, 28, 32, 38 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED
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