Islandman · This Is Not A Game Of Who The Fuck Are You

186 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 34-35 and 37-39 -- 6.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
ISLANDMAN · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 24, 33, 85, 111, 133 and 151.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 111 · LANDS ON BAR 112

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

186 bars across 26 sections: 137 keep time, 6 are fills, 18 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 172-186.

PART B
PART M
PART Q
PART AJ
CHORUS 2
PART AV
PART BD
OUTRO
24 groovesAMBGMQAV+19Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Islandman?

140 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 Islandman hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 5:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 26 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Islandman?

6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 24, 33, 85, 111, 133 and 151.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED
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