The Dark Memories · Heavenly

294 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 5:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
294
LENGTH
5:53
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 58-60, 62-65 and 91-93, and 20 more places -- 32% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 200 BPM
THE DARK MEMORIES · BAR 59
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 13, 21, 29, 37, 53, 61 and 36 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

294 bars across 25 sections: 216 keep time, 43 are fills, 12 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 204-226.

PART H
CHORUS 4
PART H
CHORUS 5
PART W
OUTRO
15 groovesMHWACO+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Dark Memories?

200 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 The Dark Memories hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

294 bars, about 5:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 19 sittings, about 28 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 The Dark Memories?

19 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 13, 21, 29, 37, 53, 61 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 294 BARS ANALYSED
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