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Project 1 · Legends Never Die

EXERCISE 3 OF 53
Groove AB -- Part AB
60 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AB
CHORUS
PART M
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART AB
CHORUS 3
PART AE
PART AH
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesHAEABAHM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Project 1 on drums

149 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
72/100

snare through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-3, snare through bars 4-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-39, hi-hat through bars 40-48 and snare through bars 49-70, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11-13 and 15-17, and 13 more places -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |----x-----------x---x-------x---|
Project 1 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 48 and 80.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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, AE -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part M -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Project 1?

175 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 Project 1 hard to play on drums?

72 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?

149 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Project 1?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 48 and 80.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED