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Helena · My Chemical Romance

EXERCISE 10 OF 46
Join Part S2 to Part F (bars 7-9)
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0 / 46 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2, PART F
PART S2
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Helena on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, ride through bars 17-30, snare through bars 31-33, hi-hat through bars 34-41 and ride through bars 42-57, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---x---|
BD |x-x-x-x---x---x-|
Helena -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- M, E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-24 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part G and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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