I Wanna Mohawk (But Mom Won't Let Me Get One) · AFI

44 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 1:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
44
LENGTH
1:09
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 21-27 and 37-40 -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 152 BPM
I WANNA MOHAWK (BUT MOM WON'T LET ME GET ONE) · BAR 6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 20 and 36.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

44 bars across 7 sections: 27 keep time, 2 are fills, 6 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-11.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCES1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Wanna Mohawk (But Mom Won't Let Me Get One)?

152 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 I Wanna Mohawk (But Mom Won't Let Me Get One) hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

44 bars, about 1:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 I Wanna Mohawk (But Mom Won't Let Me Get One)?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 20 and 36.

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