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The Ballad Of Mona Lisa · Panic! At The Disco

EXERCISE 10 OF 28
2-bar fill at bar 31 and 1 more
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0 / 28 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Ballad Of Mona Lisa on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-30, toms through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-39 and toms through bars 40-50, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    33               34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--oo-ooooooo-ooo|oooo-ooooooo-o--|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x-xx|
BD |x-------x-------|x-------x-------|
The Ballad Of Mona Lisa -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- G, B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 29-44 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 59-73 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED