Mongoose · Fu Manchu

132 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-40, 42-49 and 54-56, and 6 more places -- 55.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 134 BPM
MONGOOSE · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 29, 53, 57, 65, 80, 81 and 9 more.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 8 sections: 105 keep time, 15 are fills, 5 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-21.

PART C
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHCFDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mongoose?

134 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 Mongoose hard to play on drums?

53 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Mongoose?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 29, 53, 57, 65, 80, 81 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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