Icarus · Monkey3, Picasso Christophe, Albrecht Walter, De Piante Boris, Desboeufs Guillaume

537 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 14:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
537
LENGTH
14:54
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-48, 52-58 and 60-66, and 61 more places -- 46.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 144 BPM
ICARUS · BAR 418
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 49, 50, 51, 59, 67, 75 and 56 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 49-51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 75 · LANDS ON BAR 76 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

537 bars across 29 sections: 191 keep time, 62 are fills, 130 are stops and 134 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 211-217.

CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART AF
PART S18
CHORUS 4
PART U
18 groovesJS18UAFS6+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Icarus?

144 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 Icarus hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

537 bars, about 14:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 18 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 Icarus?

22 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 49, 50, 51, 59, 67, 75 and 56 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 537 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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