Memories and Dreams · Sally Face

28 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 1:24 of playing, on crash, snare, floor tom and kick.

Country / FolkRockUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
28
LENGTH
1:24
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12 -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 80 BPM
MEMORIES AND DREAMS · BAR 5
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

28 bars across 4 sections: 23 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-12.

PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCDIAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Memories and Dreams?

80 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 Memories and Dreams hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

28 bars, about 1:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 28 BARS ANALYSED
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