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Legendary · Skillet

EXERCISE 7 OF 31
Groove B
59 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART F
PART N
PART H
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAHFNE+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Legendary on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

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

silence through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-19, kick and crashes through bars 20-23, toms through bars 24-27, hi-hat through bars 28-31 and silence through bars 32-33, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    36
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Legendary -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 27, 55, 63, 79, 105 and 117.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- H, F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Break 3 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 41-52 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 60-80 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Legendary?

124 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 Legendary hard to play on drums?

51 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 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 Legendary?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 27, 55, 63, 79, 105 and 117.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED