Monkberry Moon Delight · Paul McCartney

131 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 5:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 66% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-12, 14-20 and 25-32, and 10 more places -- 65.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 98 BPM
MONKBERRY MOON DELIGHT · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 72, 94, 106 and 126.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 94 · LANDS ON BAR 95 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 106 · LANDS ON BAR 107
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 4 sections: 113 keep time, 4 are fills and 11 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 73-93.

CHORUS
PART J
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Monkberry Moon Delight?

98 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 Monkberry Moon Delight hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 3 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Monkberry Moon Delight?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 72, 94, 106 and 126.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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