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Monster · Skillet

EXERCISE 21 OF 32
Fill at bar 58, 86 and 96 (a small one)
81 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Monster on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-25, snare through bars 26-36, hi-hat through bars 37-50 and snare through bars 51-66, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Monster -- 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 20, 25, 29, 45, 50, 54 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- I -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-54 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 51-94 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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