Contractor ( AI ) · Lamb Of God

119 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:39 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-15 and 35-36, and 2 more places -- 14.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
CONTRACTOR ( AI ) · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 95 and 119.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 95 · LANDS ON BAR 96
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 119
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 14 sections: 79 keep time, 2 are fills, 4 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-12.

CHORUS
PART F
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART J
PART S8
PART R
BREAK 2
PART D
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBRZFJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Contractor ( AI )?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Contractor ( AI ) hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 14 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Contractor ( AI )?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 95 and 119.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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