← SONGS

Contractor ( AI ) · Lamb Of God

EXERCISE 3 OF 38
Groove Z -- Part Z
27 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Z, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Contractor ( AI ) on drums

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.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, kick and crashes through bars 42-52, silence through bars 53-62 and snare through bars 63-80, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    11
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Contractor ( AI ) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part J -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

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