Contagion · The Black Dahlia Murder

131 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 35-37 and 39-41, and 5 more places -- 24.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
CONTAGION · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 17, 18, 26 and 22 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 12 sections: 72 keep time, 28 are fills, 19 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 117-130.

PART E
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART N
PART O
PART R
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHEJXR+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Contagion?

128 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 Contagion hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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?

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 17, 18, 26 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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