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Monstrance Clock · Ghost

EXERCISE 23 OF 44
Join Part D to Part K (bars 55-57)
86 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART K
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
PART K
PART S10
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHDBLS10+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Monstrance Clock on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
56/100

ride through bars 2-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, ride through bars 49-72, silence through bars 73-80, ride through bars 81-88 and hi-hat through bars 89-104, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-47 and 89-103 -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Monstrance Clock -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 24, 48, 56, 64, 88 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- H, D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 45-58 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 55-105 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 59-69 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 67-109 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Monstrance Clock?

105 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 Monstrance Clock hard to play on drums?

56 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Monstrance Clock?

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 24, 48, 56, 64, 88 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED