Ice Blink Luck · Cocteau Twins

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-28, 50-52 and 61-64, and 1 more place -- 18.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 102 BPM
ICE BLINK LUCK · BAR 61
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 41, 65 and 73.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 13 sections: 60 keep time, 3 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-16.

PART B
PART C
VERSE 2
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGFECP+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ice Blink Luck?

102 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 Ice Blink Luck hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 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, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Ice Blink Luck?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 41, 65 and 73.

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