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Isle Unto Thyself · Miracle Musical

Isle Unto Thyself · Miracle Musical
EXERCISE 2 OF 6
Groove C
66 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 6 PASSED · 30 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Isle Unto Thyself on drums

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

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-73, silence through bars 74-77 and hi-hat through bars 78-108.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------------x--x|
BD |x--x--x---x-----|
Isle Unto Thyself -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED