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My Sharona · The Knack

My Sharona · The Knack
EXERCISE 21 OF 44
Run C2 · Chorus 2 (bars 33-51)
65 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Sharona on drums

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.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
86/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-8, silence through bars 9-10, snare through bars 11-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40 and snare through bars 41-44, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    3
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-------x-------x-x---x-|
My Sharona -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 24, 49, 50, 51, 59, 67 and 5 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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