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ICU · Xdinary Heroes

EXERCISE 17 OF 84
Groove N
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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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 1
JOIN · 13
LINK · 9
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play ICU on drums

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.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
52/100

toms through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-12, hi-hat through bars 13-33, snare through bars 34-36, hi-hat through bars 37-45 and snare through bars 46-62, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    46
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
ICU -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- I, G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part L -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 15-51 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part V -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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