Monochrome · Lovejoy

167 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-8, 10-15 and 18-23, and 14 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
MONOCHROME · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 9, 16, 17, 24, 53, 54 and 18 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 53-55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

167 bars across 10 sections: 122 keep time, 24 are fills, 1 is a stop and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 76-102.

CHORUS
BREAK
PART G
PART O
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBGOS3K+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Monochrome?

135 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 Monochrome hard to play on drums?

52 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 7 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Monochrome?

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 9, 16, 17, 24, 53, 54 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED
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