Face Of Melinda · Opeth

150 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 7:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressiveUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
7:36
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 4 more places -- 47.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
FACE OF MELINDA · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 9, 106 and 118.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 106 · LANDS ON BAR 107 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 14 sections: 132 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-78.

CHORUS
PART N
PART N
PART M
OUTRO
9 groovesBMNJP+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Face Of Melinda?

80 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 Face Of Melinda 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 7:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 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 Face Of Melinda?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 9, 106 and 118.

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