Islak Islak · Barış Akarsu

148 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-14, 16-18 and 52-58, and 21 more places -- 53.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
ISLAK ISLAK · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 11, 19, 51, 59, 67, 75 and 8 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 8 sections: 108 keep time, 14 are fills, 4 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 108-122.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART S3
PART F
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCGS1FS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Islak Islak?

125 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 Islak Islak hard to play on drums?

49 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 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 Islak Islak?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 11, 19, 51, 59, 67, 75 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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