I Never Told You What I Do For A Living · My Chemical Romance

123 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 116 BPM, 3:37 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 63, 65 and 67, and 12 more places -- 14.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 116 BPM
I NEVER TOLD YOU WHAT I DO FOR A LIVING · BAR 63
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 12, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 38 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 21-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 39-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 51-54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 10 sections: 61 keep time, 45 are fills, 2 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-20.

CHORUS
PART N
PART S
PART W
PART AE
OUTRO
9 groovesCWNAES+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Never Told You What I Do For A Living?

116 BPM, in 3/4, 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 I Never Told You What I Do For A Living hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 I Never Told You What I Do For A Living?

14 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 12, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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