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Thank You For The Venom (My Ver.) · My Chemical Romance

EXERCISE 28 OF 63
Groove T
150 / 189 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART Z
CHORUS 4
PART S11
CHORUS 5
7 groovesKZDS11A+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Thank You For The Venom (My Ver.) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
208 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
67/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-8, ride through bars 9-15, toms through bars 16-17 and kick and crashes through bars 18-20, and 39 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 29-31 and 33, and 31 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxx-----xxx-----|
Thank You For The Venom (My Ver.) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 46 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- K -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-62 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 48-55 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 87-113 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Thank You For The Venom (My Ver.)?

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 (My Ver.) hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

189 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 (My Ver.)?

15 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 46 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED