Monsters · Matchbook Romance

113 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-23, 28-29 and 50-51, and 4 more places -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 115 BPM
MONSTERS · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 36, 60, 80 and 92.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 15 sections: 83 keep time, 4 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 95-109.

PART C
CHORUS
PART F
PART C
PART I
PART B
PART Q
PART T
OUTRO
9 groovesHFCTB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Monsters?

115 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 hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 15 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 36, 60, 80 and 92.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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