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Melanie · Deftones

EXERCISE 8 OF 22
Groove I
107 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART J
OUTRO
4 groovesBJS1S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Melanie on drums

141 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 2:55 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-47, hi-hat through bars 48-66, snare through bars 67-89 and hi-hat through bars 90-100, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 41-43, and 9 more places -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x-------x-------|
BD |------x-------x-|
Melanie -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 32, 74, 92, 100, 104, 108 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- G, B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part J -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Melanie?

195 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 Melanie 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Melanie?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 32, 74, 92, 100, 104, 108 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED