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Memphis Will Be Laid To Waste · Norma Jean

EXERCISE 23 OF 66
Groove Q -- Part Q
97 / 186 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
PART D
CHORUS
PART Q
PART A
PART Z
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesKDANAQ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Memphis Will Be Laid To Waste on drums

186 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 4:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
43/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-85, toms through bars 86-88, kick and crashes through bars 89-113 and toms through bars 114-121, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 90-96 and 98-99, and 12 more places -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    123
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x-x---x-x-x-x-|
Memphis Will Be Laid To Waste -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 12, 20, 36, 40, 44, 48 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- A, K -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-60 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 57-69 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part Q and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part A and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Memphis Will Be Laid To Waste?

156 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 Memphis Will Be Laid To Waste 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Memphis Will Be Laid To Waste?

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 12, 20, 36, 40, 44, 48 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED