Island Magic · Dave Weckl

161 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 4:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 3% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14 and 34-36 -- 2.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
ISLAND MAGIC · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 96 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 28, 29 and 90 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 6-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 28-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 6 sections: 54 keep time, 96 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 89-107.

PART C
PART O
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBRKOCBGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Island Magic?

128 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 Magic hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 10 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Island Magic?

5 fills to learn, played 96 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 28, 29 and 90 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED
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