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Melancolía · Mon Laferte

EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 30 PASSED · 35 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Melancolía on drums

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.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-36, ride through bars 37-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-54, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1.....2.....3.....
HH |x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |---------x--------|
BD |x--------------x--|
Melancolía -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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, E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Break and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 61-79 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 6 minutes.
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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