Islands In The Stream · Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 4:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / FolkPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 87% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 13-27 and 29-54, and 4 more places -- 86.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 102 BPM
ISLANDS IN THE STREAM · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 55 and 73.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 5 sections: 98 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-54.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
3 groovesABIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Islands In The Stream?

102 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 Islands In The Stream hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Islands In The Stream?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 55 and 73.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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