Monkey Wrench · Foo Fighters

169 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 41-43, and 14 more places -- 22.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
MONKEY WRENCH · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 5, 32, 48, 52, 78, 94 and 7 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 134 · LANDS ON BAR 135
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 9 sections: 142 keep time, 13 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-71.

PART B
PART M
PART B
PART M
PART O
OUTRO
7 groovesJBMOF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Monkey Wrench?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Monkey Wrench hard to play on drums?

61 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Wrench?

3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 5, 32, 48, 52, 78, 94 and 7 more.

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