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Sofia · Clairo

EXERCISE 13 OF 21
Groove H -- Part H
71 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
COUNT-IN
VERSE
PART D
PART E
VERSE 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCBDEH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sofia on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 3:09 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-25, kick and crashes through bars 26-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-89.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-17, 34-40 and 42-64 -- 45.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-xxx-xxx-xxx-xx|
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

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Verse and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-65 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 62-77 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sofia?

113 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?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED