Thunder Island · Jay Ferguson

128 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-23, 26-27 and 42-43, and 5 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 123 BPM
THUNDER ISLAND · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 24, 36, 48, 64, 72 and 12 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 11 sections: 86 keep time, 18 are fills, 8 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-63.

PART A
PART H
PART C
PART H
PART M
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesUCHAM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thunder Island?

123 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Thunder Island hard to play on drums?

52 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Thunder Island?

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 24, 36, 48, 64, 72 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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