My Sharona · The Knack

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 4:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPopUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-8, 33-40 and 46-48 -- 19.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 76 BPM
MY SHARONA · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 24, 49, 50, 51, 59, 67 and 5 more.

LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 76 BPM
BARS 49-51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 10 sections: 67 keep time, 11 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-48.

CHORUS
PART H
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCHLSV+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Sharona?

76 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 My Sharona hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 13 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 My Sharona?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 24, 49, 50, 51, 59, 67 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
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