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Famous Last Words · My Chemical Romance

EXERCISE 13 OF 39
Groove H (a two-bar phrase)
100 / 154 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART N
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGQNS1S+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Famous Last Words on drums

154 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 5:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-15, toms through bars 16-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-20, hi-hat through bars 21-37, snare through bars 38-45 and kick and crashes through bars 46-48, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-27, 30-35 and 38-45, and 7 more places -- 48.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Famous Last Words -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 16, 17, 20, 21, 29, 37 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- G, K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part S3 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-98 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 96-106 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Famous Last Words?

122 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 Famous Last Words hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 5:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Famous Last Words?

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 16, 17, 20, 21, 29, 37 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED