Kuru · Contaminant

141 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:57 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 55, 57 and 59, and 5 more places -- 12% 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
KURU · BAR 90
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 9, 26, 27, 36, 37, 56 and 3 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 13 sections: 71 keep time, 9 are fills, 39 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-25.

PART B
PART G
PART L
CHORUS
PART Y
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesRGPACL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kuru?

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 Kuru hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Kuru?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 9, 26, 27, 36, 37, 56 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Contaminant drum parts

EVERY CONTAMINANT CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →