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melomani 2 · Dethrashed

EXERCISE 26 OF 47
Groove K -- Part K (a two-bar phrase)
198 / 232 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART A
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART K
PART N
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCANHK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play melomani 2 on drums

232 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 5:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
232
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
86/100

hi-hat through bars 1-80, kick and crashes through bars 81-88, snare through bars 89-104, ride through bars 105-120, hi-hat through bars 121-136 and ride through bars 137-152, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-47, 65-79 and 153-168, and 1 more place -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    33
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
melomani 2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 48, 52 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 50-85 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 10 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is melomani 2?

180 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 melomani 2 hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

232 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 melomani 2?

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 48, 52 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 232 BARS ANALYSED