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Just Monika (A DDLC Song) · Random Encounters

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EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove D -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART A
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDAFS1S8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Just Monika (A DDLC Song) on drums

155 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:15 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-126, silence through bars 127-131 and hi-hat through bars 132-155.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-31, 37-54 and 57-86, and 4 more places -- 77.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x-x-x---x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Just Monika (A DDLC Song) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 117-137 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Just Monika (A DDLC Song)?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Just Monika (A DDLC Song) hard to play on drums?

51 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED