Monkey Cage · Mortal Decay

180 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 8:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
8:05
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 19-20, and 6 more places -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
MONKEY CAGE · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 10, 14, 18, 46, 47 and 13 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

180 bars across 13 sections: 101 keep time, 19 are fills, 8 are stops and 40 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-44.

PART A
PART E
PART I
PART H
CHORUS
PART AN
OUTRO
BREAK 3
12 groovesS13AKIAWAN+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Monkey Cage?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Monkey Cage hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 8:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Monkey Cage?

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 10, 14, 18, 46, 47 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED
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