Sharp Dressed Man · Chrome Division

118 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:57 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 79% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-31, 33-46 and 49-59, and 7 more places -- 78.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 160 BPM
SHARP DRESSED MAN · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 32, 48, 80, 96, 112 and 118.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 112 · LANDS ON BAR 113
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 118
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 3 sections: 69 keep time, 6 are fills, 37 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-25.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDS3BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sharp Dressed Man?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Sharp Dressed Man hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Sharp Dressed Man?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 32, 48, 80, 96, 112 and 118.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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