Sofia · Alvaro Soler

110 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-35, 61-65 and 96-110 -- 36.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
SOFIA · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 58.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 14 sections: 82 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-37.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDBCGS13+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sofia?

128 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 Sofia hard to play on drums?

43 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Sofia?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 58.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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