In Alto Mare · Loredana Bertè

123 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 4:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Pop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 74% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-15 and 17-19, and 26 more places -- 74% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 108 BPM
IN ALTO MARE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 16, 36, 48, 56, 64 and 3 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 2 sections: 112 keep time and 9 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 95-123.

OUTRO 2
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In Alto Mare?

108 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 In Alto Mare hard to play on drums?

53 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 In Alto Mare?

8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 16, 36, 48, 56, 64 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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