Monolith · Stone Sour

144 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 57-63 and 105-106, and 3 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
MONOLITH · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 24, 32, 36, 44, 48, 64 and 7 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 14 sections: 114 keep time, 13 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 90-113.

PART A
PART H
PART I
CHORUS
PART P
PART H
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKPHIY+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Monolith?

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

Is Monolith hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Monolith?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 24, 32, 36, 44, 48, 64 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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