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The Memory Remains · Metallica

EXERCISE 17 OF 57
Groove P
86 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART S, PART AF
CHORUS
PART K
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART AF
OUTRO
12 groovesCKSUAF+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Memory Remains on drums

143 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-11, snare through bars 12-13, hi-hat through bars 14-44, snare through bars 45-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-60, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 20 more places -- 21.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------X-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|
The Memory Remains -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 13, 28, 29, 46, 61, 62 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- C, B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 58-88 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part T -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part T and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Memory Remains?

145 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 The Memory Remains hard to play on drums?

51 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 13, 28, 29, 46, 61, 62 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED