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Ice Blink Luck · Cocteau Twins

EXERCISE 3 OF 46
Groove F -- Verse 2
27 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE, VERSE 2
PART B
PART C
VERSE
VERSE 2
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGFECP+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ice Blink Luck on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
65/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-4, ride through bars 5-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28, toms through bars 29-32 and ride through bars 33-48, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- G, C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-24 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through the Verse and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Bars 27-33 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Verse 2 and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED