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Contacto · Camilo Séptimo

Contacto · Camilo Séptimo
EXERCISE 19 OF 28
Join Verse to Chorus 2 (bars 43-45)
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0 / 28 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE, CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART I
VERSE
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFIKS7B+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Contacto on drums

103 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-61, silence through bars 62-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-103.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 25 more places -- 35.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x--xx---x---|
Contacto -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 36, 44, 76, 77, 79 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Verse -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Contacto?

95 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 Contacto hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Contacto?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 36, 44, 76, 77, 79 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED