Manic Monday · Bangles

92 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 85% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 10-24 and 26-33, and 4 more places -- 84.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
MANIC MONDAY · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 9, 70 and 71.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 70-71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars: 78 keep time, 3 are fills, 10 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-24.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Manic Monday?

120 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 Manic Monday hard to play on drums?

43 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Manic Monday?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 9, 70 and 71.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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