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The Five Of Us Are Dying · My Chemical Romance

EXERCISE 28 OF 51
Part G into Chorus 2 with the record (bars 59-66)
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0 / 51 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Five Of Us Are Dying on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
67 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
7:55
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-34, ride through bars 35-45, hi-hat through bars 46-66, ride through bars 67-77 and hi-hat through bars 78-82, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---g---x---g---x---g---x---g---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------x---x-----------|
The Five Of Us Are Dying -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- G, L -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 59-79 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part T -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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