My Monolord · Betraying Lizard

108 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 4:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-44, 51-54 and 94-99 -- 14.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 113 BPM
MY MONOLORD · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16 and 7 more.

LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

255 bars across 12 sections: 47 keep time, 13 are fills, 30 are stops and 158 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-70.

CHORUS
BREAK 2
10 groovesS12FINK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Monolord?

113 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 My Monolord hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 My Monolord?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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