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Peace Sells · Megadeth

EXERCISE 9 OF 36
Join Part A to Chorus (bars 7-9)
109 / 147 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Peace Sells on drums

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.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
79/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-78, kick and crashes through bars 79-80, silence through bars 81-83, hi-hat through bars 84-116 and ride through bars 117-132, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Peace Sells -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 49-60 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 65-109 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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