The Legacy · Black Veil Brides

242 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 4:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
242
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 45, 47 and 55-56, and 16 more places -- 12.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
THE LEGACY · BARS 55-56
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 1, 2, 9, 14, 18, 26 and 52 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

242 bars across 26 sections: 106 keep time, 58 are fills, 43 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 168-174.

PART C
CHORUS 4
PART AH
OUTRO
15 groovesQJCFAH+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Legacy?

185 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 The Legacy hard to play on drums?

61 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

242 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 82 exercises over 19 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Legacy?

25 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 1, 2, 9, 14, 18, 26 and 52 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 242 BARS ANALYSED
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