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Little Monster · Royal Blood

EXERCISE 4 OF 43
Groove D -- Part D
19 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART P
CHORUS 3
6 groovesBPDGV+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Little Monster on drums

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
75/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-21, ride through bars 22-31, hi-hat through bars 32-43 and ride through bars 44-51, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-5, 22 and 24, and 12 more places -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    22
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----x-----------x-----------------------------|
RD |------------x-----------x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x--------------x--------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------x--------------x--------------|
Little Monster -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 21, 29, 31, 42, 43 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, C -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 52-78 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Little Monster?

95 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Little Monster hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, 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 Little Monster?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 21, 29, 31, 42, 43 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED