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Vampires Will Never Hurt You · My Chemical Romance

EXERCISE 13 OF 69
Join Part B to Part C (bars 22-24)
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PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART T
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
PART S
8 groovesLTCBS+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
JOIN · 12
LINK · 12
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vampires Will Never Hurt You on drums

269 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 5:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
269
LENGTH
5:39
DIFFICULTY
61/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-57, snare through bars 58-73, hi-hat through bars 74-93, snare through bars 94-127 and ride through bars 128-129, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 58, 60 and 62, and 28 more places -- 36.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    58
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Vampires Will Never Hurt You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 17, 57, 59, 61, 63, 65 and 32 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 -- L -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-58 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Vampires Will Never Hurt You?

190 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 Vampires Will Never Hurt You hard to play on drums?

61 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

269 bars, about 5:39 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 and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Vampires Will Never Hurt You?

11 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 17, 57, 59, 61, 63, 65 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 269 BARS ANALYSED