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Islands of Men · Geese

EXERCISE 13 OF 59
Groove H
124 / 221 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART U
12 groovesEUBAFC+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 5
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Islands of Men on drums

221 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 6:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
221
LENGTH
6:11
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-129, silence through bars 130-136 and ride through bars 137-221.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-45 -- 18.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---X---x---X---|
Islands of Men -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 136, 200, 211, 212 and 220.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- B, E -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 46-118 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Bars 81-88 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Islands of Men?

143 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 of Men hard to play on drums?

60 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

221 bars, about 6:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 21 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Islands of Men?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 136, 200, 211, 212 and 220.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 221 BARS ANALYSED