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Manic Monday · Bangles

EXERCISE 1 OF 8
Groove A -- Outro
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0 / 8 PASSED · 77 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Manic Monday on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
43/100

hi-hat through bars 1-88 and kick and crashes through bars 89-92.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- A -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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