Memories Of The Grove · Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster

145 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 105 BPM, 4:41 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetalcore / Hardcore90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3 and 5-28 -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 105 BPM
MEMORIES OF THE GROVE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 32, 36, 44, 52, 56 and 6 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 13 sections: 102 keep time, 12 are fills and 15 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-28.

CHORUS
PART C
PART G
PART C
PART L
PART Q
PART T
PART J
OUTRO 2
10 groovesALCQJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Memories Of The Grove?

105 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Memories Of The Grove hard to play on drums?

46 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Of The Grove?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 32, 36, 44, 52, 56 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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