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Islak Islak · Barış Akarsu

Islak Islak · Barış Akarsu
EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove C -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Islak Islak on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-20, silence through bars 21-27, hi-hat through bars 28-125, snare through bars 126-127 and hi-hat through bars 128-148.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- C, G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 11-111 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 18-39 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 72-126 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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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