The Contract · Twenty One Pilots

117 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieHip Hop / Reggae120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-35, 37-40 and 42-44, and 9 more places -- 39.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
THE CONTRACT · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 33, 41, 49, 57, 64, 65 and 3 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 64-65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 109 · LANDS ON BAR 110 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 8 sections: 68 keep time, 9 are fills, 1 is a stop and 36 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-32.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART S4
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
VERSE
6 groovesDS1BS4N+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Contract?

135 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 The Contract hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 The Contract?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 33, 41, 49, 57, 64, 65 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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