This Is How I Disappear (If Bob Bryar were good) · My Chemical Romance

144 bars at 163 BPM -- fast, and 3:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49, 52 and 72-74, and 3 more places -- 9.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 163 BPM
THIS IS HOW I DISAPPEAR (IF BOB BRYAR WERE GOOD) · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 28 more.

LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 163 BPM
BARS 7-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 18 sections: 73 keep time, 34 are fills and 19 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-24.

PART H
PART K
PART Y
CHORUS 2
PART AD
PART O
PART AN
PART AQ
OUTRO 2
13 groovesUOHKAQ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is This Is How I Disappear (If Bob Bryar were good)?

163 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 This Is How I Disappear (If Bob Bryar were good) hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 18 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 This Is How I Disappear (If Bob Bryar were good)?

15 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 28 more.

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