ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Remembrance on drums

217 bars at 204 BPM -- fast, and 4:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 204 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 217
LENGTH: 4:14
DIFFICULTY: 87/100

snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-18, toms through bars 19-20, ride through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-39 and ride through bars 40-41, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-10, 13-18 and 42-47, and 1 more place -- 11.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5                                6
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |--------o-------o-------o---o---|o---o---o---o---o---o-----------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x-------x-x-x-x-|
T2 |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
FT |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
BD |x-------x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x---------|

Remembrance -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 2, 3, 11, 19, 20, 21 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- AM -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part D -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part D and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through Part M -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
and 14 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Remembrance?

204 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Remembrance hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 89 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

217 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Remembrance?

12 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 2, 3, 11, 19, 20, 21 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 217 BARS ANALYSED