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Contusion (Live 1974) · Stevie Wonder

EXERCISE 20 OF 81
Groove E -- Part E
53 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 81 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART D
PART E
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Contusion (Live 1974) on drums

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.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
67/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-15, ride through bars 16-23, snare through bars 24-27, ride through bars 28-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-36, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    24
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x--x--x--x--|
SD |--x--x--x--x|
BD |x--x--x--x--|
Contusion (Live 1974) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- K -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 14-24 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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