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Memento Mori · Kamelot

EXERCISE 4 OF 88
Groove I -- Part I
59 / 317 BARS COVERED
0 / 88 PASSED · 31 BARS LIT
PART B
PART D
PART I
CHORUS
PART W
CHORUS 2
PART W
CHORUS 4
PART AG
PART E
PART AG
PART I
13 groovesQDBWAG+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 16
LINK · 12
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Memento Mori on drums

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.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
317
LENGTH
8:31
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-49, snare through bars 50-65, hi-hat through bars 66-77, toms through bars 78-96 and snare through bars 97-103, and 24 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
T1 |------------------x--x--x--x--------------------|
T2 |------------------------------x--x--------------|
FT |x--------------------------------------x--x--x--|
BD |x--------x--x-----x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Memento Mori -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 71 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 -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-54 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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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