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EXERCISE 3 OF 69
Groove AA
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PART C
PART W
PART Z
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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 5
JOIN · 13
LINK · 4
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Contemporary Disease (AI) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
44/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-6, hi-hat through bars 7-26, silence through bars 27-29, ride through bars 30-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-54, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    132
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------x---|
BD |x---x---------xx----|
Contemporary Disease (AI) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- BP, Q -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 1-12 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-26 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part W -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part W and Part Z -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 51-58 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED