La Isla Bonita · System Of A Down

62 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 2:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 8, 10-12 and 22-24, and 4 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 85 BPM
LA ISLA BONITA · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 7, 9, 13, 21, 25, 29 and 9 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

62 bars across 5 sections: 39 keep time, 15 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-20.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesELPS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is La Isla Bonita?

85 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 La Isla Bonita hard to play on drums?

59 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 La Isla Bonita?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 7, 9, 13, 21, 25, 29 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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