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Madre Dolcissima · Zucchero

EXERCISE 21 OF 46
Fill at bar 176 (a small one)
189 / 249 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 4
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Madre Dolcissima on drums

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.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
249
LENGTH
7:13
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-25, silence through bars 26-36, hi-hat through bars 37-156, toms through bars 157-160 and hi-hat through bars 161-180, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----------x---|
Madre Dolcissima -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- B, N -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 102-185 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 123-165 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 4 and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part N and Part F -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 214-235 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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