contradictory · alex walder

145 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 24-38 and 62-77 -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
CONTRADICTORY · BARS 24-25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 53 and 9 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 11 sections: 114 keep time, 15 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 115-144.

PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART B
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART Q
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJWBFL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is contradictory?

170 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 contradictory hard to play on drums?

58 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in contradictory?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 53 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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