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.

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

TEMPO

75 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

184

LENGTH

9:49

DIFFICULTY

63/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-19, toms through bars 20-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-35 and snare through bars 36-43, and 27 more changes after that.

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.

    37
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------X-----------------------X-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------------x-----x-----------------|

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

It cuts the song into 63 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, O -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
3. Through Part B and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
4. Bars 13-25 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
5. Through Part C and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
6. Bars 33-44 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Through Part O and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
8. Through Part Q and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
9. and 10 more sittings after that.