Welcome To The Black Parade · My Chemical Romance

184 bars, 9:49, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

PunkAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
9:49
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-42, 64-66 and 72-74, and 6 more places -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 75 BPM
WELCOME TO THE BLACK PARADE · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 29 and 29 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 20-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 29-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

184 bars across 17 sections: 101 keep time, 35 are fills, 22 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 120-128.

PART E
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART Q
CHORUS 3
PART AA
PART AO
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
12 groovesLQAAOAP+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Welcome To The Black Parade?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Welcome To The Black Parade hard to play on drums?

63 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 9:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 18 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 Welcome To The Black Parade?

13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 29 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED
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