Monsters (All Instruments) · Shinedown

144 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-42, 44-49 and 64, and 10 more places -- 58.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
MONSTERS (ALL INSTRUMENTS) · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 50, 55, 71, 80, 88, 96 and 9 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 12 sections: 87 keep time, 15 are fills, 15 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-33.

COUNT-IN
PART A
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
8 groovesCS1GAS3+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Monsters (All Instruments)?

150 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 Monsters (All Instruments) hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Monsters (All Instruments)?

12 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 50, 55, 71, 80, 88, 96 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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