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Memento Mori · Architects

EXERCISE 22 OF 54
Join Part H to Chorus (bars 36-38)
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0 / 54 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Memento Mori on drums

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.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
6:00
DIFFICULTY
78/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-20, snare through bars 21-52, silence through bars 53-86, snare through bars 87-114 and toms through bars 115-117, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    85
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Memento Mori -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V, AH -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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