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Melanie Whorehouse · Amulet

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove G -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGCMS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Melanie Whorehouse on drums

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.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:20
DIFFICULTY
53/100

toms through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-35, hi-hat through bars 36-37, snare through bars 38-51, hi-hat through bars 52-66 and snare through bars 67-71, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    20               21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxx---xxxx|xxxxx---xxxxx---|
Melanie Whorehouse -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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, C -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-92 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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