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Hang 'Em High · My Chemical Romance

EXERCISE 31 OF 48
Join Part N to Chorus 2 (bars 55-57)
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0 / 48 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
PART N
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEJBNX+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hang 'Em High on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 2:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-16, ride through bars 17-22 and hi-hat through bars 23-26, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 17 and 19, and 8 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-g-x-g-x-g-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--xx--xx--|
Hang 'Em High -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 18, 20, 30, 32, 34 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A, J -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-41 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-45 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-52 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 53-66 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hang 'Em High?

127 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 Hang 'Em High hard to play on drums?

72 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?

84 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 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 Hang 'Em High?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 18, 20, 30, 32, 34 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED