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EXERCISE 27 OF 44
Fill at bar 42 (a small one)
44 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART E
PART M
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesQXEMS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Monument on drums

88 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 1:48 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
1:48
DIFFICULTY
53/100

kick and crashes through bars 3-14, hi-hat through bars 15-22, toms through bars 23-37, snare through bars 38-46, hi-hat through bars 47-52 and toms through bars 53-86, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32, 56 and 60, and 5 more places -- 9.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |x-----gg--------|
BD |--x-----x---x-x-|
Monument -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- R, E -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-25 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-31 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-39 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 37-79 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Monument?

195 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?

53 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 1:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Monument?

13 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED