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My Friend Peter · Alkaline Trio

EXERCISE 1 OF 10
Groove B -- Outro
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OUTRO
2 groovesBS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Friend Peter on drums

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.

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
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
2:13
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-116.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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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