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Memorama · Allison

Memorama · Allison
EXERCISE 3 OF 48
Groove C -- Part C
46 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART B
PART C
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Memorama on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
68/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-18, ride through bars 19-34, hi-hat through bars 35-50, ride through bars 51-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-74, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------------x-|
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Memorama -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- G, B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-54 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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