My Sharona · Knack

90 bars, 4:47, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-10, 14 and 16-19, and 6 more places -- 37.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 75 BPM
MY SHARONA · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 49, 50, 71, 75 and 90.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 49-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 75 · LANDS ON BAR 76
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 90
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 9 sections: 71 keep time and 5 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-23.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART T
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAQTHV+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Sharona?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is My Sharona hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 My Sharona?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 49, 50, 71, 75 and 90.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
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