Island In The Sun · Weezer

94 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and floor tom.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 100% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-94 -- 100% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 115 BPM
ISLAND IN THE SUN · BAR 6
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 2 sections: 90 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-94.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Island In The Sun?

115 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 Island In The Sun hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 3 exercises over 2 sittings, about 16 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and floor tom. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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