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Memories and Dreams · Steve Gabry

Memories and Dreams · Steve Gabry
EXERCISE 4 OF 15
Groove C -- Part C
100 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Memories and Dreams on drums

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

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
42/100

ride through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-28, ride through bars 29-48, hi-hat through bars 49-72, ride through bars 73-92 and hi-hat through bars 93-116, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x---x-x-|
SD |----x----x--x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
Memories and Dreams -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- D, E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 3-16 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 13-132 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED