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Monochrome No Kiss · Sid

EXERCISE 7 OF 65
Groove D
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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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Monochrome No Kiss on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-131 and ride through bars 132-142.

The beat

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.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x-x--x--x|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Monochrome No Kiss -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, R -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-38 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part R -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 69-83 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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