Iron Lion Zion · Bob Marley

59 bars, 3:06, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Hip Hop / ReggaeUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
59
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-9, 16-19 and 26-37 -- 40.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 74 BPM
IRON LION ZION · BARS 2-3
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 13, 23 and 41.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

59 bars across 8 sections: 45 keep time and 3 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-59.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Iron Lion Zion?

74 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 Iron Lion Zion hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

59 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Iron Lion Zion?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 13, 23 and 41.

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