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Drowning Lessons · My Chemical Romance

EXERCISE 4 OF 81
Groove AG -- Part AG
22 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 81 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AG
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drowning Lessons on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
66/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-3, toms through bars 4-5, snare through bars 6-24, hi-hat through bars 25-33 and snare through bars 34-48, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x--x|
BD |x--x--x--x-x----|
Drowning Lessons -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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