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Face Of Melinda · Opeth

EXERCISE 8 OF 29
Run B1 · Chorus (bars 2-78)
114 / 150 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 77 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART N
PART N
PART M
OUTRO
9 groovesBMNJP+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Face Of Melinda on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
7:36
DIFFICULTY
52/100

ride through bars 2-86, hi-hat through bars 87-98, ride through bars 99-106, hi-hat through bars 107-110, ride through bars 111-118 and hi-hat through bars 119-148, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|
Face Of Melinda -- 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 9, 106 and 118.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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, M -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-88 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 90-107 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part M and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 125-133 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED