Melissa · Porno Graffitti

194 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:34 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Pop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-28, 76-84 and 132-133, and 1 more place -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
MELISSA · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 2, 19, 31, 75, 87, 131 and 2 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

194 bars across 19 sections: 161 keep time, 8 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 168-194.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART J
CHORUS 4
PART O
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFJOHD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Melissa?

170 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 Melissa hard to play on drums?

60 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

194 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Melissa?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 2, 19, 31, 75, 87, 131 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 194 BARS ANALYSED
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