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Monsters · Matchbook Romance

Monsters · Matchbook Romance
EXERCISE 14 OF 44
Groove K
74 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART I, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Monsters on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-20, ride through bars 21-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48 and ride through bars 49-60, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    22
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------x-----------x-----------------------------|
RD |x-----------x-----------x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
Monsters -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- I, B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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