Contractor · Lamb Of God

119 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-20, 23-24 and 44-45, and 4 more places -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
CONTRACTOR · BARS 19-20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 76 and 95.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 95 · LANDS ON BAR 96
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 12 sections: 80 keep time, 2 are fills, 9 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART S6
PART O
PART S
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBHOS6S+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Contractor?

190 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 hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 2:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 13 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Contractor?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 76 and 95.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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