Boy Division · My Chemical Romance

133 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 2:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-9, 14-17 and 32, and 4 more places -- 25.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 184 BPM
BOY DIVISION · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 18, 19, 25, 33, 42, 43 and 18 more.

LOOP · 184 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BARS 42-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 12 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 15 sections: 70 keep time, 24 are fills, 21 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-9.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART P
CHORUS 4
PART G
CHORUS 5
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBGHTC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Boy Division?

184 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 Boy Division hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Boy Division?

7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 18, 19, 25, 33, 42, 43 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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