The Memory Remains - · Metallica

75 bars, 3:58, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

MetalAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 8-10 and 12-14, and 8 more places -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 72 BPM
THE MEMORY REMAINS - · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 7, 16, 25, 31, 32, 34 and 21 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 8 sections: 31 keep time, 28 are fills, 8 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-23.

CHORUS
PART F
PART P
PART F
OUTRO
6 groovesBFPS7S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Memory Remains -?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is The Memory Remains - hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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 Memory Remains -?

9 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 7, 16, 25, 31, 32, 34 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED
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