tower of memories · ivri

117 bars at 161 BPM -- fast, and 2:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
161 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 67% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-19, 21-31 and 33-36, and 19 more places -- 66.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 161 BPM
TOWER OF MEMORIES · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 50, 76 and 106.

LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 8 sections: 41 keep time, 3 are fills, 38 are stops and 33 are silent.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
BREAK
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBS1S5S3S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is tower of memories?

161 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 tower of memories hard to play on drums?

49 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 tower of memories?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 50, 76 and 106.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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