Flight Of Icarus · Iron Maiden

106 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6-8 and 10, and 20 more places -- 37.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
FLIGHT OF ICARUS · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 2, 3, 5, 13, 25, 29 and 10 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 2-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 9 sections: 72 keep time, 16 are fills, 8 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-24.

CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART Y
PART AD
7 groovesDYADRK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Flight Of Icarus?

110 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?

56 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Flight Of Icarus?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 2, 3, 5, 13, 25, 29 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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