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Italian Leather Sofa · Cake

EXERCISE 6 OF 46
Groove C
53 / 148 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS
PART S
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGSZAD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Italian Leather Sofa on drums

148 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 5:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
5:42
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-25, kick and crashes through bars 26-31, hi-hat through bars 32-49, kick and crashes through bars 50-54 and snare through bars 55-56, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-17, 19 and 21-23, and 4 more places -- 14.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x----x--|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x-------------------x-----------x-----------------------|
Italian Leather Sofa -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 64, 126, 127, 135 and 140.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 59-65 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Italian Leather Sofa?

104 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Italian Leather Sofa hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

148 bars, about 5:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Italian Leather Sofa?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 64, 126, 127, 135 and 140.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED