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This Is How I Disappear · My Chemical Romance

EXERCISE 33 OF 73
Groove V (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 2
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play This Is How I Disappear on drums

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.

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
163 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-33, toms through bars 34-39, hi-hat through bars 40-41, toms through bars 42-43 and ride through bars 44-53, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
This Is How I Disappear -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- T, M -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-26 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-39 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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