Memento Mori · Marduk

99 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
97/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-27 and 31-34 -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 124 BPM
MEMENTO MORI · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 28, 29, 30, 36, 38, 50 and 10 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 28-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 16 sections: 54 keep time, 16 are fills, 8 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-27.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART F
PART J
PART J
PART N
PART P
PART N
10 groovesCFJNP+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Memento Mori?

124 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?

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 28, 29, 30, 36, 38, 50 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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