Memories At The Window · Black Oak Arkansas

171 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 3:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-87, 137-140 and 145-148, and 2 more places -- 59.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 172 BPM
MEMORIES AT THE WINDOW · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 90, 98, 108, 126, 130, 142 and 5 more.

LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 108 · LANDS ON BAR 109 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 126 · LANDS ON BAR 127
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 142 · LANDS ON BAR 143 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

171 bars across 8 sections: 112 keep time, 11 are fills, 28 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-87.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBS1AIHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Memories At The Window?

172 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 At The Window hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Memories At The Window?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 90, 98, 108, 126, 130, 142 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED
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