Helena · My Chemical Romance

100 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-32, 56 and 64-65, and 3 more places -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 126 BPM
HELENA · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 20, 26 and 14 more.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BARS 5-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 13 sections: 57 keep time, 20 are fills, 4 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-40.

PART F
PART G
PART I
PART E
PART G
PART I
PART P
CHORUS
PART X
OUTRO 2
9 groovesMGIEX+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Helena?

126 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 Helena hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Helena?

6 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 20, 26 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED
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