ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Monomyth on drums

90 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 150 BPM, 3:18 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO: 150 BPM
TIME: 6/4
BARS: 90
LENGTH: 3:18
DIFFICULTY: 82/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-6, snare through bars 7-14, hi-hat through bars 15-38, snare through bars 39-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-47, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-14 and 27 -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7                                                                        8
    1...........2...........3...........4...........5...........6........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........5...........6...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------------------x-----------------------------------|------------------------------------x-----------------------------------|
BD |x-x-x---x-x-x-------x-x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x-------x-x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x---|----x-x-x---x-x-x-------x-x-x---x-x-x-------x-x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x-------|

Monomyth -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 6, 27, 28, 42, 43, 44 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
Through Part S2 and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through Part E and Part V -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part V and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.

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Questions

What BPM is Monomyth?

150 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Monomyth hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Monomyth?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 6, 27, 28, 42, 43, 44 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED