Melancolía · Mon Laferte

103 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 85 BPM, 3:38 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-20, 33-36 and 40-42, and 2 more places -- 37.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 85 BPM
MELANCOLÍA · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 23, 31, 39, 54, 62, 70 and 6 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 77-78 · LANDS ON BAR 79 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 10 sections: 70 keep time, 12 are fills, 5 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-20.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBES9S1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Melancolía?

85 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Melancolía hard to play on drums?

39 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Melancolía?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 23, 31, 39, 54, 62, 70 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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