ICU · Xdinary Heroes

153 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:57 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16 and 34, and 25 more places -- 18.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
ICU · BAR 46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 17, 25 and 26 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 7-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 15 sections: 97 keep time, 32 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-44.

PART A
PART L
PART Q
CHORUS
PART V
PART Y
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesGQYLA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is ICU?

155 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 ICU hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 ICU?

20 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 17, 25 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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