Commercial Icon · Anakreenskyrider

94 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-15, 25 and 27, and 6 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
COMMERCIAL ICON · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 23, 31, 35, 57, 61, 65 and 4 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 10 sections: 68 keep time, 10 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-56.

CHORUS
PART F
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART O
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCJFOD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Commercial Icon?

150 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 Commercial Icon hard to play on drums?

46 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Commercial Icon?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 23, 31, 35, 57, 61, 65 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED
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