Memories and Dreams · Steve Gabry

132 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-28, 57-72 and 101-116 -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
MEMORIES AND DREAMS · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 10 sections: 118 keep time and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-28.

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

Questions

What BPM is Memories and Dreams?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Memories and Dreams hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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