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My Way Home Is Through You · My Chemical Romance

EXERCISE 19 OF 56
Join Part L to Part D (bars 45-47)
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0 / 56 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, PART D
PART D
CHORUS
PART L
PART D
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART X
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHDXAKL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Way Home Is Through You on drums

148 bars at 208 BPM -- fast, and 2:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
208 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-23, ride through bars 24-29, toms through bars 30-31, ride through bars 32-38 and toms through bars 39-46, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-25, 27-29 and 32-33, and 10 more places -- 24.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
My Way Home Is Through You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 6, 45, 46, 78, 80, 81 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- H, D -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 35-47 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 43-56 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 51-66 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part X -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is My Way Home Is Through You?

208 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is My Way Home Is Through You hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 12 sittings, about 30 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 My Way Home Is Through You?

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 6, 45, 46, 78, 80, 81 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED