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Demolition Lovers · My Chemical Romance

EXERCISE 11 OF 89
Groove F -- Part F
50 / 161 BARS COVERED
0 / 89 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART AG
PART AK
PART L
CHORUS 2
14 groovesPZAKLC+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 9
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Demolition Lovers on drums

161 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 6:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
6:51
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-47, hi-hat through bars 48-64 and ride through bars 65-72, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57-63, 71 and 130-132, and 2 more places -- 12.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    57
    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--------|
Demolition Lovers -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 40, 42, 44, 50, 52, 55 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 70 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 -- Z -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, AB -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and the Break 2 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part C and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Bars 47-120 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Demolition Lovers?

94 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 Demolition Lovers hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 6:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 21 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 Demolition Lovers?

18 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 40, 42, 44, 50, 52, 55 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED