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Flight Of Icarus RM · Iron Maiden

EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 37 PASSED · 46 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBXACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Flight Of Icarus RM on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-85, ride through bars 86-101 and toms through bars 102-105.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6-8, and 22 more places -- 43.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----x--------x--------|
Flight Of Icarus RM -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 13, 25, 29, 37, 41 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K (a two-bar phrase), H (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Flight Of Icarus RM?

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 RM 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?

105 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 RM?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 13, 25, 29, 37, 41 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED