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Memoirs Of The Alluring Maiden · Alternative Competition 6

EXERCISE 1 OF 41
Groove AN -- Outro
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0 / 41 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Memoirs Of The Alluring Maiden on drums

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.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
52 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
10:48
DIFFICULTY
66/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-11, snare through bars 12-14, hi-hat through bars 15-17 and ride through bars 18-19, and 21 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    118
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |X---------------X---------------|
SD |X---xx-xx---x---X---xxxxxx-xx-x-|
Memoirs Of The Alluring Maiden -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- AN -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-84 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 25-31 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 47-70 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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