Monochrome No Kiss · Sid

142 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-38, 43-46 and 76-79, and 3 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 144 BPM
MONOCHROME NO KISS · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 17, 25, 40, 41, 42, 47 and 34 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 40-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 47-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 19 sections: 60 keep time, 40 are fills, 4 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-61.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART J
PART R
PART J
CHORUS 4
PART AB
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEJRS1H+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Monochrome No Kiss?

144 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 No Kiss 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 No Kiss?

15 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 17, 25, 40, 41, 42, 47 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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