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Memories At The Window · Black Oak Arkansas

Memories At The Window · Black Oak Arkansas
EXERCISE 13 OF 25
Join Part A to Part H (bars 109-111)
137 / 171 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART H
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART A
PART H
PART I
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBS1AIHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Memories At The Window on drums

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.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-109, toms through bars 110-114, hi-hat through bars 115-131, toms through bars 132-136 and hi-hat through bars 137-171.

The beat

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.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-x-----x-x-|
Memories At The Window -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-111 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 109-127 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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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