Cubicles · My Chemical Romance

185 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 3:59 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
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 5 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 186 BPM
CUBICLES · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 33 and 31 more.

LOOP · 186 BPM
BARS 24-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 186 BPM
BARS 33-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 186 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 186 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 15 sections: 94 keep time, 37 are fills, 24 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-71.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART N
PART Y
PART AC
PART AH
OUTRO
11 groovesCAHNIAC+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cubicles?

186 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 Cubicles hard to play on drums?

53 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 Cubicles?

12 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 33 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED
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