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Contact · Kyo

EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove D -- Chorus
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PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBS10S1S8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Contact on drums

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
38/100

hi-hat through bars 3-71, silence through bars 72-75 and hi-hat through bars 76-79.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-14, 20-26 and 28-34, and 5 more places -- 65.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 15, 35, 53 and 63.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Bars 6-54 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Contact?

90 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 Contact hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Contact?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 15, 35, 53 and 63.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED