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Trapped In The Grasp Of A Memory · Knocked Loose

EXERCISE 1 OF 73
Groove AD -- Part AD
0 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AD, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART K
PART O
PART R
PART V
PART Y
PART AD
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART AJ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesBAPADVAJ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Trapped In The Grasp Of A Memory on drums

120 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
77/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-9, snare through bars 10-24, toms through bars 25-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-47, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 59-65, 102 and 106, and 3 more places -- 10% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    59
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x-x-x-x-x---x---|
Trapped In The Grasp Of A Memory -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 17, 19 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- AD -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AP -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Trapped In The Grasp Of A Memory?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Trapped In The Grasp Of A Memory hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 2:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 20 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Trapped In The Grasp Of A Memory?

14 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 17, 19 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED