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Contraband · Make Them Suffer

EXERCISE 1 OF 61
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART AA
PART O
OUTRO
13 groovesBEJAAO+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Contraband on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, silence through bars 17-18, snare through bars 19-53, silence through bars 54-55 and snare through bars 56-61, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11-13 and 15, and 14 more places -- 25.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x--x--x---------|
Contraband -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 20, 24, 25, 26, 31, 33 and 20 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 -- B, C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-21 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-66 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-70 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-117 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Contraband?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Contraband hard to play on drums?

51 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Contraband?

14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 20, 24, 25, 26, 31, 33 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED