Sole Nero · Litfiba

59 bars, 3:38, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

PopRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
59
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-10, 17-19 and 21-22, and 7 more places -- 44.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 65 BPM
SOLE NERO · BAR 8
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 6, 16, 23, 31, 40, 41 and 3 more.

LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 65 BPM
BARS 40-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 65 BPM
BARS 57-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

59 bars across 6 sections: 43 keep time, 9 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-56.

PART A
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sole Nero?

65 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Sole Nero hard to play on drums?

59 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

59 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Sole Nero?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 6, 16, 23, 31, 40, 41 and 3 more.

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