This Is How I Disappear · 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 upBeginner
TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-46, 49 and 52, and 7 more places -- 11.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 163 BPM
THIS IS HOW I DISAPPEAR · BAR 45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 26 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 16 sections: 65 keep time, 32 are fills and 32 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-33.

PART H
PART M
CHORUS
PART Y
CHORUS 2
PART AC
PART AG
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesTHOAGAC+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is This Is How I Disappear?

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 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 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 57 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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?

15 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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