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Monitor · Siouxsie And The Banshees

EXERCISE 20 OF 45
Run C3 · Chorus 3 (bars 49-58)
86 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Monitor on drums

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.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
5:24
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-58, silence through bars 59-64, hi-hat through bars 65-93, snare through bars 94-97 and kick and crashes through bars 98-99, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xx------xx------|
Monitor -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- C, B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 41-82 -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. Bars 40-58 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 49-69 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 67-75 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 81-87 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 95-110 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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