sea of memories · Decrepit Birth

103 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 2:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
2:19
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 22 and 24, and 3 more places -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 178 BPM
SEA OF MEMORIES · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 19, 20, 21 and 23 more.

LOOP · 178 BPM
BARS 8-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BARS 19-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 9 sections: 62 keep time, 29 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-88.

PART A
PART E
PART D
PART J
CHORUS
PART J
PART A
OUTRO 2
7 groovesMADJV+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is sea of memories?

178 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 sea of memories hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 2:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 sea of memories?

12 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 19, 20, 21 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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