sometimes memory fails me sometimes · Everyone Asked About You

109 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 4:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 65-72 and 74-80, and 1 more place -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 108 BPM
SOMETIMES MEMORY FAILS ME SOMETIMES · BAR 67
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36 and 21 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 8 sections: 68 keep time, 27 are fills, 2 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-27.

CHORUS
PART L
PART V
PART A
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCLWVA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is sometimes memory fails me sometimes?

108 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is sometimes memory fails me sometimes hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 4 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 sometimes memory fails me sometimes?

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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