Early Sunsets Over Monroeville · My Chemical Romance

150 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 93 BPM, 4:50 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 50-52, and 16 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 93 BPM
EARLY SUNSETS OVER MONROEVILLE · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 24, 28, 32 and 34 more.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 11 sections: 96 keep time and 41 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 134-149.

PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGAAFBAB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Early Sunsets Over Monroeville?

93 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Early Sunsets Over Monroeville hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 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 Early Sunsets Over Monroeville?

14 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 24, 28, 32 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED
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