Contusion (Live 1974) · Stevie Wonder

121 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-25, 37-38 and 64-65, and 4 more places -- 8.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 126 BPM
CONTUSION (LIVE 1974) · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 26, 31, 32 and 45 more.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 16 sections: 48 keep time, 51 are fills, 6 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-10.

PART D
PART G
PART G
PART W
PART V
PART AJ
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesKGVDW+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Contusion (Live 1974)?

126 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 Contusion (Live 1974) hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 20 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 Contusion (Live 1974)?

19 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 26, 31, 32 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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