The Ballad Of Mona Lisa · Panic! At The Disco

109 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-38, 61-66 and 93-98, and 1 more place -- 25.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 125 BPM
THE BALLAD OF MONA LISA · BARS 33-34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 16, 24, 31, 32, 39, 40 and 9 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 67-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 10 sections: 67 keep time, 15 are fills, 2 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-83.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART B
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGBDLS9+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Ballad Of Mona Lisa?

125 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 The Ballad Of Mona Lisa hard to play on drums?

51 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 The Ballad Of Mona Lisa?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 16, 24, 31, 32, 39, 40 and 9 more.

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