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Legend of the Free · Imperial Age

EXERCISE 8 OF 57
Groove F -- Outro
117 / 187 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART G
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART T
OUTRO
7 groovesBGKTF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Legend of the Free on drums

187 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
187
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 2-16, snare through bars 17-18, kick and crashes through bars 19-21, hi-hat through bars 22-63, snare through bars 64-70 and hi-hat through bars 71-75, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 36-41, and 8 more places -- 44.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 17, 18, 42, 50, 58 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-176 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Legend of the Free?

180 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 Legend of the Free hard to play on drums?

63 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

187 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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 Legend of the Free?

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 17, 18, 42, 50, 58 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 187 BARS ANALYSED