The Kids From Yesterday · My Chemical Romance

159 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

120 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

159

LENGTH

5:18

DIFFICULTY

59/100

ride through bars 1-36, hi-hat through bars 37-50, ride through bars 51-74, hi-hat through bars 75-88, ride through bars 89-112 and hi-hat through bars 113-141, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-19, 21-35 and 51-57, and 4 more places -- 40.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x--xx-x-x-x-|
HH |----------------|------x---------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
FT |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
BD |x-------x-------|x-------x-------|
HF |----------------|-------x--------|

2 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 20, 36, 58, 66, 74, 112 and 3 more.

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- B, F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
3. Bars 1-54 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. Bars 51-127 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
5. Through Part F and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.