Drowning Lessons · My Chemical Romance

145 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 7 and 9, and 14 more places -- 12.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 124 BPM
DROWNING LESSONS · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 8, 10, 12 and 52 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 10 sections: 74 keep time, 58 are fills and 3 are stops.

PART C
CHORUS
PART T
PART Y
PART AG
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHAGCASY+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Drowning Lessons?

124 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 Drowning Lessons hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 17 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 Drowning Lessons?

22 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 8, 10, 12 and 52 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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