I Melt With You · Modern English

161 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 4:06 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 26-28, and 21 more places -- 46.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 156 BPM
I MELT WITH YOU · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 129.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 129 · LANDS ON BAR 130
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 6 sections: 149 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-71.

CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDFCS5S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Melt With You?

156 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 I Melt With You hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 I Melt With You?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 129.

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