Dead Memories · Slipknot

138 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 4:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 42-46, 71-75 and 79-83, and 1 more place -- 12.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 126 BPM
DEAD MEMORIES · BARS 42-43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 6, 8, 16, 17, 25, 33 and 28 more.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 126 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 14 sections: 78 keep time, 34 are fills, 4 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 121-128.

PART A
PART E
PART P
CHORUS
PART Y
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART AG
PART S12
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesTEANPS12+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dead Memories?

126 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Dead Memories hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 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 Dead Memories?

17 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 6, 8, 16, 17, 25, 33 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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