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tower of memories · ivri

EXERCISE 4 OF 13
Join Chorus to Part S3 (bars 35-37)
60 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART S3
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play tower of memories on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
161 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-37, silence through bars 38-43, snare through bars 44-45, hi-hat through bars 46-60 and silence through bars 61-68, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13               14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x---------x-x---|--x-x---------x-|
tower of memories -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 35-61 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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