Melanie Whorehouse · Amulet

96 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 2:20 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:20
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 20-51 and 68-83 -- 50.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 165 BPM
MELANIE WHOREHOUSE · BARS 20-21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 2 and 10.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 4 sections: 65 keep time, 3 are fills, 25 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-51.

PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGCMS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Melanie Whorehouse?

165 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 Whorehouse hard to play on drums?

53 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 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 Melanie Whorehouse?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 2 and 10.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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