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Peace Is Free · Black Stone Cherry

EXERCISE 13 OF 46
Fill at bar 24 and 72
42 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART F
PART S5
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDHFMS5+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Peace Is Free on drums

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-21, snare through bars 22-24, ride through bars 25-28, silence through bars 29-30 and hi-hat through bars 31-40, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 3 more places -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----------x-------------------|
Peace Is Free -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 24, 26, 32, 43, 44 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- D, F -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-33 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part S5 and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-74 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Peace Is Free?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Peace Is Free hard to play on drums?

53 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Peace Is Free?

12 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 24, 26, 32, 43, 44 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED