Peace Sells · Megadeth

147 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-24, 32-46 and 48-51, and 5 more places -- 35.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 138 BPM
PEACE SELLS · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 30, 56, 108, 115, 116 and 1 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 108 · LANDS ON BAR 109
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 115-116 · LANDS ON BAR 117 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 10 sections: 125 keep time, 7 are fills, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 118-141.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
7 groovesDQCAN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Peace Sells?

138 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 Peace Sells hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 Peace Sells?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 30, 56, 108, 115, 116 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED
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