Memento Mori · Lamb Of God

124 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 33-36, and 4 more places -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 123 BPM
MEMENTO MORI · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 8, 12, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 34 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 19-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 20 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 13 sections: 51 keep time, 40 are fills, 9 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-74.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART AB
PART S10
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBEFABAL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Memento Mori?

123 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?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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?

11 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 8, 12, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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