Monalisa · Jorge Vercillo

114 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 26-27 and 29-30, and 8 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
MONALISA · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 13 sections: 100 keep time and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-60.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCFBDI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Monalisa?

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 Monalisa hard to play on drums?

47 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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