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Monolith · Twin Tribes

Monolith · Twin Tribes
EXERCISE 3 OF 22
Groove B
98 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
PART C
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAFCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Monolith on drums

152 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 4:17 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
64/100

snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-48, hi-hat through bars 49-56, snare through bars 57-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-88, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 7 more places -- 40.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 152.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- A, F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-73 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 69-92 -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Monolith?

142 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 Monolith hard to play on drums?

64 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 152.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED