Monkey Gone To Heaven · Pixies

82 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 2:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 7 more places -- 38.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 117 BPM
MONKEY GONE TO HEAVEN · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 13, 21, 37, 45, 57 and 4 more.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 9 sections: 56 keep time, 10 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-12.

PART B
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART S6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEBCS6S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Monkey Gone To Heaven?

117 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 Monkey Gone To Heaven hard to play on drums?

52 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Monkey Gone To Heaven?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 13, 21, 37, 45, 57 and 4 more.

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