Un sorriso dentro al pianto · Ornella Vanoni

50 bars, 3:20, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
50
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 16-17 and 19, and 6 more places -- 32.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 60 BPM
UN SORRISO DENTRO AL PIANTO · BAR 24
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 23, 43, 46, 48, 49 and 50.

LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 60 BPM
BARS 48-50 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

50 bars across 6 sections: 31 keep time, 6 are fills and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-22.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCBS1ES4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Un sorriso dentro al pianto?

60 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 Un sorriso dentro al pianto hard to play on drums?

43 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

50 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 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 Un sorriso dentro al pianto?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 23, 43, 46, 48, 49 and 50.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 50 BARS ANALYSED
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