Monitor · Siouxsie And The Banshees

131 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 5:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
5:24
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-24, 33-40 and 49-52, and 2 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 97 BPM
MONITOR · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 64 and 3 more.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BARS 53-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 103 · LANDS ON BAR 104

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 19 sections: 93 keep time, 9 are fills, 1 is a stop and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-24.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART E
PART B
PART S
OUTRO 2
11 groovesCBVES+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Monitor?

97 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 Monitor hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 5:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Monitor?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 64 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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