Broken Memory · Shadowcast

186 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 4:31 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-30, 33-34 and 37-38, and 13 more places -- 18.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BROKEN MEMORY · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 27, 28, 63, 64, 86 and 153.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 153 · LANDS ON BAR 154
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

186 bars across 14 sections: 139 keep time, 6 are fills, 12 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 158-185.

PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesIENCD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Broken Memory?

165 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 Broken Memory hard to play on drums?

53 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Broken Memory?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 27, 28, 63, 64, 86 and 153.

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