Mony Mony · Billy Idol

111 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 3:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPunk120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-19, 22-23 and 34-54, and 3 more places -- 43.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 136 BPM
MONY MONY · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 7 sections: 99 keep time, 4 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-98.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART E
OUTRO
4 groovesACES6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mony Mony?

136 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 Mony Mony hard to play on drums?

37 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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