The Secret Island of Fantasies · Alternative Competition 2

83 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-12 -- 40.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
THE SECRET ISLAND OF FANTASIES · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 5 sections: 26 keep time, 1 is a fill and 56 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-12.

CHORUS
PART D
BREAK 2
OUTRO
5 groovesS4BCDS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Secret Island of Fantasies?

120 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 The Secret Island of Fantasies hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 The Secret Island of Fantasies?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

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