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Mona Lisa · Invocation of Nehek

Mona Lisa · Invocation of Nehek
EXERCISE 9 OF 70
Groove D
71 / 192 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART Z
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
18 groovesCZAQSJ+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 4
JOIN · 16
LINK · 4
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mona Lisa on drums

192 bars at 198 BPM -- fast, and 3:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
198 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
75/100

snare through bars 1-3, silence through bars 4-6, snare through bars 7-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-46 and kick and crashes through bars 47-48, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 7 more places -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x-------x--x-x--|
Mona Lisa -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 42, 103, 106, 107, 109, 111 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AQ -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Break and Part S2 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 22-27 -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part J -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part J -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mona Lisa?

198 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Mona Lisa hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 20 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Mona Lisa?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 42, 103, 106, 107, 109, 111 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED