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The Dark Memories · Heavenly

The Dark Memories · Heavenly
EXERCISE 14 OF 85
Run E1 · Part E (bars 17-21)
197 / 294 BARS COVERED
0 / 85 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
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
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Dark Memories on drums

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.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
294
LENGTH
5:53
DIFFICULTY
66/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-65, toms through bars 66-68, kick and crashes through bars 69-70, toms through bars 71-72 and kick and crashes through bars 73-82, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- M, H -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-22 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 62-83 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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