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Monkey Wrench · Foo Fighters

EXERCISE 5 OF 45
Fill at bar 5, 52, 102 and 4 more (a small one)
88 / 169 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART O, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Monkey Wrench on drums

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.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-31, snare through bars 32-48, hi-hat through bars 49-78, snare through bars 79-96 and ride through bars 97-98, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x---x-x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
Monkey Wrench -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- O, J -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED