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Sophie · Ave Mujica

EXERCISE 34 OF 65
Join Chorus 2 to Part S6 (bars 66-68)
110 / 162 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART S6
PART A
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART S6
PART Z
PART AD
OUTRO
9 groovesGS6ADKA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sophie on drums

162 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:14 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
51/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-9, snare through bars 10-15, hi-hat through bars 16-34 and silence through bars 35-36, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-15 and 42-56, and 7 more places -- 36.7% 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 |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
Sophie -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- G, K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-63 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and Part S4 -- 6 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part S4 and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part S4 and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 66-88 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sophie?

200 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 Sophie hard to play on drums?

51 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Sophie?

16 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED