Melissa · The Allman Brothers Band

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 3:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 27-29 and 31, and 8 more places -- 46.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 84 BPM
MELISSA · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 26, 32, 36, 42, 43 and 3 more.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 6 sections: 64 keep time, 9 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-81.

PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEDS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Melissa?

84 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Melissa hard to play on drums?

52 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 26, 32, 36, 42, 43 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED
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