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Boy Division · My Chemical Romance

EXERCISE 4 OF 45
Fill at bar 25 and 69 (a small one)
64 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Boy Division on drums

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.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
68/100

snare through bars 2-9, ride through bars 10-13, snare through bars 14-21, ride through bars 22-33, snare through bars 34-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-63, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Boy Division -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- B, G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 8-20 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-35 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 52-89 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 5 and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 90-113 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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