melodeth 2 · Matriphagy

130 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 2:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
2:15
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-55, 57-63 and 105-111, and 1 more place -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 230 BPM
MELODETH 2 · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 10, 12, 14, 16, 22 and 17 more.

LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 17 sections: 84 keep time, 23 are fills, 7 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-63.

PART A
PART D
PART H
CHORUS
PART D
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
7 groovesQDHKY+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is melodeth 2?

230 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is melodeth 2 hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 2:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 melodeth 2?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 10, 12, 14, 16, 22 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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