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Soñé (MTV Unplugged) · Zoé

EXERCISE 16 OF 17
Run A4 · Outro (bars 105-144)
153 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 40 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesACEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Soñé (MTV Unplugged) on drums

153 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
41/100

hi-hat through bars 1-48, snare through bars 49-52, hi-hat through bars 53-68, snare through bars 69-72, hi-hat through bars 73-88 and kick and crashes through bars 89-104, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 17-23, and 33 more places -- 55.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |----x-x-----x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
HF |x-x-----x-x-----|
Soñé (MTV Unplugged) -- 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 16 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 -- A, B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 49-152 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 69-108 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Soñé (MTV Unplugged)?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Soñé (MTV Unplugged) hard to play on drums?

41 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED