La Isla Bonita · Madonna

198 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:58 of it without a break -- on ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopElectronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 17-55 and 57-95, and 1 more place -- 98.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 200 BPM
LA ISLA BONITA · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

198 bars: 198 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-198.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is La Isla Bonita?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is La Isla Bonita hard to play on drums?

56 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

198 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 3 sittings, about 16 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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