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Bury Me In Black · My Chemical Romance

EXERCISE 16 OF 43
Join Part P to Chorus 2 (bars 28-30)
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0 / 43 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P, CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesKPIXFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bury Me In Black on drums

73 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
80/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-9, hi-hat through bars 10-27, ride through bars 28-29, hi-hat through bars 30-37 and toms through bars 38-39, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 14-15 and 21, and 4 more places -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----|
Bury Me In Black -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 11-30 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 40-46 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bury Me In Black?

110 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 Bury Me In Black hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 Bury Me In Black?

11 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED