Memento Mori · Kamelot

317 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 8:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
317
LENGTH
8:31
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 79-81, 83-85 and 87-89, and 12 more places -- 18.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 143 BPM
MEMENTO MORI · BAR 80
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 49, 57, 65, 78, 82, 94 and 25 more.

LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BARS 94-95 · LANDS ON BAR 96 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

317 bars across 25 sections: 209 keep time, 31 are fills, 45 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-48.

PART B
PART D
PART I
CHORUS
PART W
CHORUS 2
PART W
CHORUS 4
PART I
13 groovesQDBWAG+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Memento Mori?

143 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 Memento Mori hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

317 bars, about 8:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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?

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 49, 57, 65, 78, 82, 94 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 317 BARS ANALYSED
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