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

EXERCISE 5 OF 59
Groove F
33 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Never Told You What I Do For A Living on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
65/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, ride through bars 21-26, hi-hat through bars 27-38, ride through bars 39-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-50, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    63
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-|
I Never Told You What I Do For A Living -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- W -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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