Icarus Lives · Periphery

88 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-40, 59 and 63 -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
ICARUS LIVES · BARS 33-34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 16, 26, 44, 48, 52, 58 and 4 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 12 sections: 56 keep time, 10 are fills, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-12.

PART B
PART E
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesINBAIE+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Icarus Lives?

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 Icarus Lives hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Icarus Lives?

10 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 16, 26, 44, 48, 52, 58 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED
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