The Sharpest Lives · My Chemical Romance

126 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-34, 37-42 and 63-68, and 3 more places -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 155 BPM
THE SHARPEST LIVES · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 28, 35, 36, 43, 44, 62 and 14 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 88-89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 92-93 · LANDS ON BAR 94 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 12 sections: 72 keep time, 20 are fills, 7 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-19.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJBFOS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Sharpest Lives?

155 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 The Sharpest Lives hard to play on drums?

62 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 The Sharpest Lives?

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 28, 35, 36, 43, 44, 62 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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