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Monsters (All Instruments) · Shinedown

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove C -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Monsters (All Instruments) on drums

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.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-17, snare through bars 18-19, silence through bars 20-21, snare through bars 22-23, silence through bars 24-25 and snare through bars 26-33, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----x---x-|
Monsters (All Instruments) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- C, G -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 66-79 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 12 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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