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Modern Iconoclast · Behemoth

EXERCISE 1 OF 57
Groove AA -- Chorus
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PART D
PART S
CHORUS
PART S
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesAASDAMM+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Modern Iconoclast on drums

142 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:08 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
5:08
DIFFICULTY
87/100

snare through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-10, snare through bars 11-16, ride through bars 17-18, snare through bars 19-20 and ride through bars 21-23, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-51, 53-56 and 89-100 -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    49
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Modern Iconoclast -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 9, 10, 11, 24, 57 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- AA -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part O -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Modern Iconoclast?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Modern Iconoclast hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 5:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, 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 Modern Iconoclast?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 9, 10, 11, 24, 57 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED