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Monsters In The Parasol · Queens Of The Stone Age

EXERCISE 21 OF 28
Groove K -- Outro 2
108 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesADKFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Monsters In The Parasol on drums

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

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
58/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Monsters In The Parasol -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- A, B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-99 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-97 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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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