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Memory · Sugarcult

Memory · Sugarcult
EXERCISE 24 OF 43
Fill at bar 85 (a small one)
119 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDARHS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Memory on drums

149 bars at 167 BPM -- fast, and 3:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
167 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bars 1-47, hi-hat through bars 48-56, snare through bars 57-73, hi-hat through bars 74-81, snare through bars 82-87 and toms through bars 88-93, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 29-35 and 37-39, and 18 more places -- 45.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Memory -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 20, 28, 36, 56, 64, 77 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- D, A -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and the Break -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Memory?

167 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 Memory hard to play on drums?

52 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Memory?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 20, 28, 36, 56, 64, 77 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED