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I Am Legend/Out for Blood · Arch Enemy

EXERCISE 20 OF 112
Join Part B to Part J (bars 28-30)
107 / 257 BARS COVERED
0 / 112 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART J
PART E
PART B
PART J
PART N
CHORUS
PART BB
20 groovesVACENJ+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 5
JOIN · 25
LINK · 13
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Am Legend/Out for Blood on drums

257 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
257
LENGTH
5:43
DIFFICULTY
71/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, ride through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-64, ride through bars 65-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-84, and 27 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23, 27 and 29-31, and 6 more places -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1...........2...........3...........
HH |o-----------------o-----------------|
SD |------------------x-----------------|
BD |x-----------x-----------------x-----|
I Am Legend/Out for Blood -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 39, 40, 48 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 94 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part J and Part N -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 61-75 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 20 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Am Legend/Out for Blood?

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

Is I Am Legend/Out for Blood hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

257 bars, about 5:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 94 exercises over 28 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 I Am Legend/Out for Blood?

17 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 39, 40, 48 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 257 BARS ANALYSED