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Monochrome · Lovejoy

EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Monochrome on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bars 2-25, silence through bars 26-37, toms through bars 38-55, snare through bars 56-72, silence through bars 73-75 and toms through bars 76-103, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-x-----|--------x-----xx|
BD |x-x-x-x-----x-x-|--x-x-x---x-x---|
Monochrome -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- B, O -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-45 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 47-56 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 54-107 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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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