Chris Cornell says he needs three hours onstage to perform songs that represent the various phases of his career: nine albums with the bands Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog and Audioslave plus three albums as a solo artist.

Cornell’s current tour stops April 15 at the Vogue, where selections from his latest solo album, “Scream,” are guaranteed to be part of the lengthy set list.

To be polite, the collaboration between rock star Cornell and R&B kingpin Timbaland polarized critics upon its March 10 release. In frank terms, “Scream” has been widely panned.

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In a different chat with Indy.com, Cornell said the handful of dance-friendly “Scream” songs he plays during every show don’t sound out of place amid burly anthems such as “Outshined” and “Rusty Cage.”

To the contrary, he says the synthesized beats of new numbers “Part of Me” and “Ground Zero” elevate a performance.

“Suddenly, the audience moves differently,” Cornell says. “Young members of the audience are used to listening to grooves that are basically beat-based, which is basically drum loops. That may be simplest way to define the difference between rock music vs. hip-hop or electronic music.”

Cornell first dabbled with drum loops on his debut solo album, 1999’s “Euphoria Morning.”

“A drum loop is a finite thing,” he says. “There’s a bouncing quality that connects with everybody. It doesn’t vary.”

He recalls that he and band mates in Soundgarden and Audioslave revved the tempo when a song’s chorus arrived.

“With live drums, you’re in a room where there’s this sort of breathing, living monster,” he says. “You’re playing guitar, and all the instruments are moving together.”

Cornell says he’s happy with the way “Scream” turned out. One key to experimentation, he says, is to reserve judgment until a song and its recording are nearly finished.

“You tend to kill a song in an embryonic stage that could have turned into something fantastic,” he says. “Once a song is done, you can beat it up all you want.”