My Friend Peter · Alkaline Trio

116 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 2:13 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
2:13
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 84% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 11 more places -- 84.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 210 BPM
MY FRIEND PETER · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 65, 105 and 113.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 113 · LANDS ON BAR 114
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 2 sections: 83 keep time, 4 are fills, 28 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-43.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Friend Peter?

210 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 My Friend Peter 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 2:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 My Friend Peter?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 65, 105 and 113.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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