The Five Of Us Are Dying · My Chemical Romance

133 bars, 7:55, at 67 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
67 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
7:55
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-20, 23-27 and 47-52, and 1 more place -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 67 BPM
THE FIVE OF US ARE DYING · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 5, 13, 21, 29, 32, 33 and 29 more.

LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 67 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 11 sections: 61 keep time, 35 are fills, 25 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-28.

PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART AA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesLGADTAA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Five Of Us Are Dying?

67 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is The Five Of Us Are Dying hard to play on drums?

64 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 7:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 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 The Five Of Us Are Dying?

9 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 5, 13, 21, 29, 32, 33 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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