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The Legacy · Black Veil Brides

EXERCISE 32 OF 108
Groove T -- Part T (a two-bar phrase)
107 / 242 BARS COVERED
0 / 108 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT
PART C
CHORUS
PART T
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART T
CHORUS 4
PART AH
OUTRO
15 groovesQJCFAH+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 25
LAND · 25
RUN · 4
JOIN · 18
LINK · 12
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Legacy on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
242
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
61/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-10, snare through bars 11-18, hi-hat through bars 19-48, ride through bars 49-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-70, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    55           56
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x---|x-------x---|
SD |------------|x-------x---|
FT |------------|----x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-|--x---xx--x-|
The Legacy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 82 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 -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-32 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 26-48 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 49-61 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part X -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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