Contemporary Disease (AI) · Lite

171 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 178 BPM, 4:39 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 131-137 and 139-140 -- 6.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 178 BPM
CONTEMPORARY DISEASE (AI) · BAR 132
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 25, 36, 45, 70, 71, 95 and 15 more.

LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

171 bars across 17 sections: 89 keep time, 21 are fills, 7 are stops and 38 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-20.

PART C
PART W
CHORUS 2
PART AK
PART BB
PART BI
OUTRO
BREAK 3
16 groovesS17QWCBI+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Contemporary Disease (AI)?

178 BPM, in 5/4, 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 Contemporary Disease (AI) hard to play on drums?

44 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Contemporary Disease (AI)?

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 25, 36, 45, 70, 71, 95 and 15 more.

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