Flight Of Icarus · Black Lightning

102 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 82% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 29-36 and 51-58, and 1 more place -- 82.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
FLIGHT OF ICARUS · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 16 sections: 35 keep time and 63 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-20.

PART S2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S8
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
10 groovesCS15AS8S2+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Flight Of Icarus?

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 Flight Of Icarus hard to play on drums?

48 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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