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Na Na Na · My Chemical Romance

EXERCISE 9 OF 55
Groove E
69 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART I
PART J
PART N
PART G
PART J
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDNKIJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Na Na Na on drums

133 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 3:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-59, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 57-58 and 93-97, and 6 more places -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Na Na Na -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 76, 84, 85, 87, 88, 89 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- I, J -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-110 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 22-46 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Na Na Na?

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

Is Na Na Na hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Na Na Na?

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 76, 84, 85, 87, 88, 89 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED