Madre Dolcissima · Zucchero

249 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 7:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
249
LENGTH
7:13
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-83, 85-99 and 106-122, and 7 more places -- 56% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 138 BPM
MADRE DOLCISSIMA · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 100, 124, 157, 158, 159, 160 and 8 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 124 · LANDS ON BAR 125
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 157-160 · LANDS ON BAR 161 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 176 · LANDS ON BAR 177

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

249 bars across 17 sections: 178 keep time, 14 are fills, 29 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-99.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
PART N
PART N
8 groovesBNEAS3+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Madre Dolcissima?

138 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 Madre Dolcissima hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

249 bars, about 7:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Madre Dolcissima?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 100, 124, 157, 158, 159, 160 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 249 BARS ANALYSED
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