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Monks · Frank Ocean

EXERCISE 22 OF 32
Groove K -- Outro 2
59 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, OUTRO 2
PART D
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART A
PART M
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEIADM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Monks on drums

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 3:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-12, hi-hat through bars 13-21, ride through bars 22-28, hi-hat through bars 29-41 and ride through bars 42-44, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-21, 30-37 and 45-49, and 1 more place -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 5, 25, 29, 41, 53, 81 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- E, F -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-28 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 27-50 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 52-64 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 63-76 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Monks?

102 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 Monks hard to play on drums?

60 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Monks?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 5, 25, 29, 41, 53, 81 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED