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Melissa · The Allman Brothers Band

EXERCISE 9 OF 26
Groove G
64 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, OUTRO 2
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEDS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Melissa on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-81.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- E, D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 4-68 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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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