Thank You for the Venom · My Chemical Romance

189 bars at 208 BPM -- fast, and 3:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
208 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 29-31 and 33, and 24 more places -- 36.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 208 BPM
THANK YOU FOR THE VENOM · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 28, 32, 36, 40, 41, 42 and 29 more.

LOOP · 208 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 208 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 208 BPM
BARS 40-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 208 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

189 bars across 16 sections: 73 keep time, 37 are fills, 49 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 132-136.

PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART W
PART S12
CHORUS 5
PART W
8 groovesJWDS12S2+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thank You for the Venom?

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 Thank You for the Venom hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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 Thank You for the Venom?

12 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 28, 32, 36, 40, 41, 42 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED
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