Santa Monica · Theory Of A Deadman

60 bars, 3:50, at 62 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

RockAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
62 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-11 and 24-29 -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 62 BPM
SANTA MONICA · BARS 6-7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 21, 23, 31 and 5 more.

LOOP · 62 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 62 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 62 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 62 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

60 bars across 11 sections: 37 keep time, 11 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-47.

PART A
CHORUS
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART I
PART M
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCIGMA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Santa Monica?

62 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Santa Monica 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Santa Monica?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 21, 23, 31 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 60 BARS ANALYSED
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