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Memory · Avantasia

EXERCISE 1 OF 43
Groove K -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Memory on drums

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

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
78/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-101, kick and crashes through bars 102-103 and hi-hat through bars 104-119.

The beat

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.

    29
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x-x-x---x---x---x-x-x---|
Memory -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- K -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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