I Still Remember · Ritchie Blackmore

107 bars, 5:58, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Ride, snare, high tom and mid tom and nothing else.

Country / FolkRockUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
5:58
DIFFICULTY
16/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 96% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-15, 17-21 and 23-38, and 3 more places -- 95.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 70 BPM
I STILL REMEMBER · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 4 sections: 94 keep time and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-52.

CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesBS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Still Remember?

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

Is I Still Remember hard to play on drums?

16 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 5 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 5:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, snare, high tom and mid tom. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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