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Sophia Loren · Roy Bianco & Die Abbrunzati Boys

Sophia Loren · Roy Bianco & Die Abbrunzati Boys
EXERCISE 15 OF 31
Join Part F to Part G (bars 77-79)
87 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART G
CHORUS
BREAK
PART G
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
PART F
PART G
PART S9
PART L
PART O
10 groovesBOGML+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sophia Loren on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
44/100

hi-hat through bars 2-25, silence through bars 26-33, kick and crashes through bars 34-36, hi-hat through bars 37-65, silence through bars 66-73 and kick and crashes through bars 74-78, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6-8, and 5 more places -- 37.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 57, 113, 121 and 129.

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 -- B, O -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-66 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 77-97 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 96-122 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sophia Loren?

144 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 Sophia Loren hard to play on drums?

44 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Sophia Loren?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 57, 113, 121 and 129.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED