Mongoloid · Devo

135 bars of 4/4 at 149 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockElectronic120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-48, 61-75 and 88-102, and 3 more places -- 63.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 149 BPM
MONGOLOID · BARS 18-19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 17, 49, 59, 60, 76, 78 and 12 more.

LOOP · 149 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 149 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 149 BPM
BARS 59-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 149 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 9 sections: 75 keep time, 18 are fills, 22 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-48.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
5 groovesDS1GKBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mongoloid?

149 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 Mongoloid hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Mongoloid?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 17, 49, 59, 60, 76, 78 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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