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La Isla Bonita · System Of A Down

EXERCISE 24 OF 35
Run E1 · Chorus (bars 8-47)
52 / 62 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 40 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesELPS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play La Isla Bonita on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-16, ride through bars 17-21, hi-hat through bars 22-47, snare through bars 48-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-58, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    10                               11
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---o---------------|
SD |--------x-----x---------x-----x-|--------x-----x-----x---x-x-----|
T2 |--------------------------------|----------------------------x-x-|
BD |x---------------x---x-----------|x---------------x---------------|
La Isla Bonita -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 8-54 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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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