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The Legacy · Testament

EXERCISE 4 OF 42
Groove E -- Part E
70 / 159 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART O
PART E
CHORUS 4
PART N
OUTRO
6 groovesBENOC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 8
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Legacy on drums

159 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 5:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
41/100

hi-hat through bars 1-26, silence through bars 27-29, hi-hat through bars 30-78, toms through bars 79-85, hi-hat through bars 86-96 and toms through bars 97-98, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-17, 37-41 and 44-48, and 5 more places -- 32.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|
The Legacy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 86, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- B, N -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 14-36 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 79-99 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 94-120 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 117-143 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Legacy?

118 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 The Legacy hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 The Legacy?

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 86, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED