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Sofia · Alvaro Soler

Sofia · Alvaro Soler
EXERCISE 7 OF 28
Groove E -- Part E
73 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART E
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDBCGS13+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sofia on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-15, hi-hat through bars 16-37, silence through bars 38-41, kick and crashes through bars 42-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-75, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Sofia -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- D, B -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Bars 16-56 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 36-72 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Bars 64-71 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 71-87 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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