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Monument · A Day To Remember

EXERCISE 24 OF 45
Join Chorus 2 to Part P (bars 55-57)
111 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART P
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART R
PART P
6 groovesCPHRS+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Monument on drums

137 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:26 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, snare through bars 29-88, kick and crashes through bars 89-96 and snare through bars 97-120, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-10, 13-15 and 17-18, and 4 more places -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-----x-|
BD |x-x-x-x---x-x-x-|--x-x-x---x-x---|
Monument -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 11, 12, 16, 19, 28, 44 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- C, P -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 32-120 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 53-106 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 69-98 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 95-102 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Monument?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Monument hard to play on drums?

52 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?

137 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Monument?

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 11, 12, 16, 19, 28, 44 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED