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Monsters and Men · Shiori Novella

Monsters and Men · Shiori Novella
EXERCISE 11 OF 51
Run F1 · Part F (bars 16-20)
53 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART D
PART F
PART G
CHORUS
PART T
PART P
OUTRO
15 groovesLGPDT+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Monsters and Men on drums

109 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-12, snare through bars 13-15, hi-hat through bars 16-20, silence through bars 21-24 and snare through bars 25-34, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-42, 44-50 and 100-107 -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    36
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----x---------x-----x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Monsters and Men -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 34, 69, 70, 72, 74, 77 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-16 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-32 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 29-51 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 49-55 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 55-68 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Monsters and Men?

126 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Monsters and Men hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Monsters and Men?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 34, 69, 70, 72, 74, 77 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED