Contusion · Stevie Wonder

126 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47, 49 and 75-77, and 2 more places -- 8.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 123 BPM
CONTUSION · BAR 47
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 22, 23 and 48 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 11 sections: 51 keep time, 54 are fills, 10 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-12.

PART B
PART H
PART Y
CHORUS
PART AF
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAAGAFBH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Contusion?

123 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 hard to play on drums?

61 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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?

14 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 22, 23 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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