Contempt Breeds Contamination · Trivium

199 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 3:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 21 and 23, and 11 more places -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 230 BPM
CONTEMPT BREEDS CONTAMINATION · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 21 more.

LOOP · 230 BPM
BARS 13-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BARS 107-108 · LANDS ON BAR 109 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 112 · LANDS ON BAR 113 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

199 bars across 10 sections: 151 keep time, 27 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-76.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART P
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
6 groovesHPALK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Contempt Breeds Contamination?

230 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 Contempt Breeds Contamination hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

199 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Contempt Breeds Contamination?

7 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 199 BARS ANALYSED
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