SKILLET · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Legendary

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28, 30 and 36-42, and 6 more places -- 42.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
51/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 124 BPM
LEGENDARY · BAR 36

It is played on crash, snare and kick, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 18 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how many limbs land on the same note.

The whole song is 51 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 93 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

  1. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, and nothing else. This is the part to know by heart.
  2. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 93, 109 and 124 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does Legendary use?

A one-bar groove on crash, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 124 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 42.3% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 28, 30, 36-42 and 64-74, and 5 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 18 times over the song.

Is the beat in Legendary hard?

18 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED