Iconoclast · Decapitated

250 bars at 209 BPM -- fast, and 4:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
209 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
250
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41, 48 and 50-62, and 6 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 209 BPM
ICONOCLAST · BAR 51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 37, 39, 45, 47, 49, 63 and 48 more.

LOOP · 209 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 209 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 209 BPM
BARS 63-65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 209 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

250 bars across 12 sections: 156 keep time, 54 are fills, 29 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 236-250.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART AE
PART AH
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGQAHAEB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Iconoclast?

209 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Iconoclast hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

250 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Iconoclast?

21 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 37, 39, 45, 47, 49, 63 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 250 BARS ANALYSED
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