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

Islandman · This Is Not A Game Of Who The Fuck Are You
EXERCISE 10 OF 80
Join Part B to Part A (bars 12-14)
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0 / 80 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART A
PART B
PART A
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
GROOVE · 26
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 8
JOIN · 17
LINK · 1
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Islandman on drums

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.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
73/100

ride through bars 1-17, snare through bars 18-40, hi-hat through bars 41-66, snare through bars 67-75, hi-hat through bars 76-80 and snare through bars 81-85, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 73 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 -- M, AK (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BG -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 12-25 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part M -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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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