Monster · Skillet

98 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30-36 and 51-53, and 11 more places -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
MONSTER · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 20, 25, 29, 45, 50, 54 and 11 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 10 sections: 65 keep time, 17 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-19.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
6 groovesICBKS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Monster?

135 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 Monster hard to play on drums?

53 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Monster?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 20, 25, 29, 45, 50, 54 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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