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DESTROYA · My Chemical Romance

EXERCISE 6 OF 60
3-bar fill at bar 45
44 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
CHORUS
PART G
PART N
PART N
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBNGUEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play DESTROYA on drums

109 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
70/100

toms through bars 1-17, snare through bars 18-21, ride through bars 22-37, snare through bars 38-41, ride through bars 42-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-63, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-16, 64-71 and 103-109 -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
T1 |----x-x-----x-x-|
T2 |x---x-x-x---x-x-|
FT |-x-x-----x-x----|
DESTROYA -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 21-36 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-32 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 28-50 -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part U -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is DESTROYA?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 DESTROYA hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 DESTROYA?

15 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED