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

Icarus · Monkey3, Picasso Christophe, Albrecht Walter, De Piante Boris, Desboeufs Guillaume
EXERCISE 1 OF 98
Groove J -- Chorus
0 / 537 BARS COVERED
0 / 98 PASSED · 189 BARS LIT
PART S6
CHORUS
PART U
PART S10
CHORUS 2
PART AE
PART U
CHORUS 3
PART AF
PART S18
PART BH
CHORUS 4
PART U
CHORUS 5
PART U
OUTRO
18 groovesJS18UAFS6+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 8
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Icarus on drums

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.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
537
LENGTH
14:54
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-12, toms through bars 13-15, silence through bars 16-21, toms through bars 22-24, silence through bars 25-31 and kick and crashes through bars 32-33, and 34 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    418
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---|
Icarus -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 75 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 -- J -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U, BH -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 31-196 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part U -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 101-117 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 115-144 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part AE -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 159-246 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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