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Island Song · Zac Brown Band

Island Song · Zac Brown Band
EXERCISE 25 OF 25
Play the whole song with the record
125 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 130 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART F
PART C
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
6 groovesDCBFS8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Island Song on drums

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

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
41/100

hi-hat through bars 2-127 and kick and crashes through bars 128-130.

The beat

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.

    25
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------|
Island Song -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- D, C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 48-55 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Break and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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