Memoirs Of The Alluring Maiden · Alternative Competition 6

135 bars, 10:48, at 52 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
52 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
10:48
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 114-129 -- 12.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 52 BPM
MEMOIRS OF THE ALLURING MAIDEN · BAR 118
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 46 more.

LOOP · 52 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 52 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 52 BPM
BARS 15-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 21 TIMES
LOOP · 52 BPM
BARS 53-69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 17 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 17 sections: 55 keep time, 52 are fills, 4 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 113-130.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S9
CHORUS 3
PART P
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
BREAK 3
10 groovesHPANS9D+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Memoirs Of The Alluring Maiden?

52 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Memoirs Of The Alluring Maiden hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 10:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 Memoirs Of The Alluring Maiden?

6 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 46 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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