Memories · Dreamwake

187 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 4:34 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
187
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 127, 136 and 158, and 11 more places -- 9.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 164 BPM
MEMORIES · BAR 127
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 27, 28, 31, 32, 35, 36 and 58 more.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BARS 38-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

187 bars across 16 sections: 78 keep time, 64 are fills, 3 are stops and 34 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 110-116.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART K
PART Q
PART V
PART AT
OUTRO 2
13 groovesABBS1QK+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Memories?

164 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 hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

187 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 15 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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?

19 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 27, 28, 31, 32, 35, 36 and 58 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 187 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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