Our Lady Of Sorrows · My Chemical Romance

73 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 2:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:03
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 13-14 and 17-18, and 5 more places -- 21.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 142 BPM
OUR LADY OF SORROWS · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 24, 26, 28 and 17 more.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 6 sections: 40 keep time, 23 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-19.

PART B
CHORUS
PART M
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesIBQEM+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Our Lady Of Sorrows?

142 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Our Lady Of Sorrows hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 2:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Our Lady Of Sorrows?

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 24, 26, 28 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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