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Memories · Outta Pocket

EXERCISE 6 OF 17
Run S21 · Part S2 (bars 4-8)
56 / 73 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2
PART S2
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEGS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Memories on drums

73 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, snare through bars 41-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-73.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23, 41-45 and 47-49, and 3 more places -- 48.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
Memories -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 6 and 8.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- E, G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 4-28 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Memories?

120 BPM, in 4/4, 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 hard to play on drums?

43 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 6 and 8.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED