Island Song · Adventure Time

54 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:48 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Hip Hop / ReggaeElectronic120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
54
LENGTH
1:48
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 36-42 and 44 -- 27.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
ISLAND SONG · BAR 19
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

54 bars across 7 sections: 46 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-18.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesECBGHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Island Song?

120 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 Song hard to play on drums?

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

54 bars, about 1:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 54 BARS ANALYSED
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