Memory · Avantasia

119 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-37, 59-67 and 104-119 -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 90 BPM
MEMORY · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 6 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 12 sections: 89 keep time, 12 are fills, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 105-119.

PART G
CHORUS
PART E
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKGREP+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Memory?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Memory hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Memory?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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