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Iconoclast · Decapitated

EXERCISE 4 OF 77
Groove B -- Part B (a two-bar phrase)
54 / 250 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Iconoclast on drums

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.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
209 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
250
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
67/100

hi-hat through bars 2-32, snare through bars 33-42, hi-hat through bars 43-47, snare through bars 48-50, hi-hat through bars 51-61 and snare through bars 62-63, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, AE -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Bars 81-90 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 88-122 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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