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Contagion · Napalm Death

EXERCISE 23 OF 63
Fill at bar 54, 102, 118 and 2 more (a small one)
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0 / 63 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, PART Z
PART A
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART Z
PART X
OUTRO
10 groovesEXLZH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Contagion on drums

182 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 4:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-42, snare through bars 43-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-82, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 27-33 and 35-41, and 4 more places -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 18, 26, 34, 42, 46, 49 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- E -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-27 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part L -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 59-87 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Contagion?

156 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Contagion hard to play on drums?

62 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

182 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 Contagion?

16 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 18, 26, 34, 42, 46, 49 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED