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The Contract · Twenty One Pilots

EXERCISE 3 OF 22
Groove G (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 22 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Contract on drums

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

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-17, ride through bars 18-33, hi-hat through bars 34-74, silence through bars 75-85, hi-hat through bars 86-93 and silence through bars 94-101, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x-x--x--g|
BD |x-x-------x-----|
The Contract -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- D, B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G (a two-bar phrase) -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 72-111 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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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