Isle Unto Thyself · Miracle Musical

108 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-10, 12 and 14, and 28 more places -- 68% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 150 BPM
ISLE UNTO THYSELF · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 4 sections: 96 keep time, 1 is a stop and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-73.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Isle Unto Thyself?

150 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 Isle Unto Thyself hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 3 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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