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My Monolord · Betraying Lizard

EXERCISE 34 OF 45
Groove R -- Part R (a two-bar phrase)
83 / 255 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R
CHORUS
PART R
BREAK 2
10 groovesS12FINK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Monolord on drums

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.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
41/100

toms through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-24, ride through bars 25-34, hi-hat through bars 35-54, silence through bars 55-56 and ride through bars 57-62, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |o---o-o-o---o---|
SD |----x---x-------|
BD |x-----x---------|
My Monolord -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16 and 7 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 -- K, F -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-55 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and Part Q -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part R and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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