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Midnight Memories · One Direction

EXERCISE 16 OF 33
Run G1 · Part G (bars 16-25)
100 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Midnight Memories on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
46/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-4, ride through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-8, ride through bars 9-10 and hi-hat through bars 11-12, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|
Midnight Memories -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- I, P -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 26-81 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
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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