Island Song · Zac Brown Band

130 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Country / Folk120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-48, 65-80 and 82-87, and 3 more places -- 57% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 148 BPM
ISLAND SONG · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 97 and 127.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 127 · LANDS ON BAR 128
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 9 sections: 100 keep time, 2 are fills, 19 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-113.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
6 groovesDCBFS8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Island Song?

148 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

41 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Island Song?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 97 and 127.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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