Monsters In The Parasol · Queens Of The Stone Age

122 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 13 more places -- 32.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
MONSTERS IN THE PARASOL · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 97 and 5 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 47-51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 97-98 · LANDS ON BAR 99 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 119-122 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 6 sections: 103 keep time and 11 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-43.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesADKFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Monsters In The Parasol?

140 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 In The Parasol hard to play on drums?

58 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 In The Parasol?

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 97 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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