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Islands In The Stream · Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers

Islands In The Stream · Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers
EXERCISE 13 OF 16
Join Chorus 2 to Outro (bars 95-97)
105 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
3 groovesABIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Islands In The Stream on drums

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.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
50/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-------|
Islands In The Stream -- 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 55 and 73.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. Bars 7-13 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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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