Midnight Memories · One Direction

113 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 2:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 9 more places -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 157 BPM
MIDNIGHT MEMORIES · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 24, 28, 36, 39, 40, 41 and 9 more.

LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BARS 39-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 8 sections: 71 keep time, 16 are fills, 18 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-95.

PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO
5 groovesIPGBS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Midnight Memories?

157 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 Midnight Memories hard to play on drums?

46 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Midnight Memories?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 24, 28, 36, 39, 40, 41 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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