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The Secret Island of Fantasies · Alternative Competition 2

EXERCISE 5 OF 11
Groove D -- Part D
12 / 83 BARS COVERED
0 / 11 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
CHORUS
PART D
BREAK 2
OUTRO
5 groovesS4BCDS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Secret Island of Fantasies on drums

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

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, silence through bars 13-14, toms through bars 15-19, silence through bars 20-73 and snare through bars 74-83.

The beat

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.

    5
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-----------------------|
HH |--------------------o---x-------|
SD |--------x-xxx-x-x---------------|
T1 |----------------------x---x-x-x-|
T2 |x-x-x-x-x-xxx-x-x-x-------------|
BD |x-----x-------------------x-----|
The Secret Island of Fantasies -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED