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Memento Mori · Marduk

EXERCISE 4 OF 45
Groove F -- Part F
33 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART J, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART F
PART J
PART F
PART J
PART N
PART P
PART N
OUTRO
10 groovesCFJNP+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Memento Mori on drums

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.

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
97/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-10, silence through bars 11-12, snare through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28 and ride through bars 29-30, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 6-39 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 53-61 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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