Monochrome · Babymetal

168 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:50 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54, 56 and 58, and 17 more places -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
MONOCHROME · BAR 54
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 7, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 9 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 14-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars across 19 sections: 80 keep time, 15 are fills, 40 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-47.

PART D
CHORUS
PART AJ
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
15 groovesAEOAJDP+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Monochrome?

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

Is Monochrome hard to play on drums?

58 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Monochrome?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 7, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED
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