In Memory · Black Sabbath

48 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 1:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
48
LENGTH
1:45
DIFFICULTY
24/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 94% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-48 -- 93.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 110 BPM
IN MEMORY · BAR 6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 3 and 4.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

48 bars across 3 sections: 21 keep time, 2 are fills, 23 are stops and 1 is silent.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In Memory?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 In Memory hard to play on drums?

24 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 4 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

48 bars, about 1:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in In Memory?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 3 and 4.

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