Skylines And Turnstiles · My Chemical Romance

201 bars at 208 BPM -- fast, and 3:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
208 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
201
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20-22 and 24, and 16 more places -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 208 BPM
SKYLINES AND TURNSTILES · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 16, 17, 19, 25, 29, 31 and 31 more.

LOOP · 208 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 208 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 208 BPM
BARS 31-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 208 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

201 bars across 17 sections: 86 keep time, 43 are fills, 44 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-15.

PART B
CHORUS
PART J
PART T
PART W
PART AE
OUTRO
11 groovesGTAEBW+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Skylines And Turnstiles?

208 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 Skylines And Turnstiles hard to play on drums?

57 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

201 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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 Skylines And Turnstiles?

13 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 16, 17, 19, 25, 29, 31 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 201 BARS ANALYSED
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