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islanda · Pinguini Tattici Nucleari

islanda · Pinguini Tattici Nucleari
EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove C -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
BREAK 3
OUTRO
6 groovesCJS7S1S3+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play islanda on drums

65 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 2:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-42, ride through bars 43-46, silence through bars 47-54, hi-hat through bars 55-60 and ride through bars 61-63, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 13 and 15-17, and 6 more places -- 49% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
islanda -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 38, 58 and 62.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- C, D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Bars 17-43 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is islanda?

88 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 islanda 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 islanda?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 38, 58 and 62.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED