Memento Mori · Architects

190 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 95 BPM, 6:00 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetal90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
6:00
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 85-87, 89-91 and 93-95, and 1 more place -- 9.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
MEMENTO MORI · BAR 85
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 11, 12, 19, 20, 32, 36 and 9 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

190 bars across 12 sections: 86 keep time, 15 are fills, 19 are stops and 59 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 102-114.

PART B
PART H
CHORUS
BREAK
PART R
PART V
PART S8
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesLS5S8HB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Memento Mori?

95 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Memento Mori hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

190 bars, about 6:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 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 Memento Mori?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 11, 12, 19, 20, 32, 36 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 190 BARS ANALYSED
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