Memorama · Allison

98 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-24, 27-31 and 51-56, and 3 more places -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
MEMORAMA · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 25, 26, 34, 42, 49, 50 and 10 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 8 sections: 72 keep time and 16 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-16.

PART B
CHORUS
PART C
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGBCACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Memorama?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Memorama hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Memorama?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 25, 26, 34, 42, 49, 50 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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