Monalisa · Jorge Vercillo

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

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

120 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

114

LENGTH

3:48

DIFFICULTY

47/100

hi-hat through bars 1-15, snare through bars 16-25 and hi-hat through bars 26-114.

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.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

It cuts the song into 28 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, F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
2. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
3. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
4. Bars 22-39 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Bars 59-70 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
7. Bars 69-76 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.