ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Abhorrent Contraception on drums

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.

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO: 148 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 167
LENGTH: 4:31
DIFFICULTY: 100/100

snare through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-4, snare through bars 5-6, ride through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-10 and ride through bars 11-12, and 26 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    67                               68
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |--------------------------------|x---------------x---------------|
RD |x-----x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----x-|----------------------x-x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|

Abhorrent Contraception -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
Through the Chorus and Part B -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part B and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
Through Part B and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
and 18 more sittings after that.

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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