Monkey Wrench
Foo Fighters · 1997
High-speed rock endurance and fast single-stroke fills for developing hand speed.
- Artist
- Foo Fighters
- Year
- 1997
- Genre
- alt-rock
- Drummer
- Dave Grohl
- Tempo
- 174 bpm
- Time
- 4/4
- Feel
- fast straight 8ths
- Difficulty
- advanced
Drummer's Quick-Start
Practice tempos
Woodshed
104bpm
Building
140bpm
Target
174bpm
The feel
A fast straight 8ths in 4/4 around 174 BPM. It's fast — economy of motion is everything; speed comes from relaxation, not force.
What to watch
- •Advanced: isolate the single hardest bar and loop it slowly before ever playing along.
How to learn it
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Learn it
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