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Peacefield · Ghost

EXERCISE 6 OF 56
Groove H -- Part H (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 56 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART H
PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART R
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART Z
OUTRO
10 groovesNCZRT+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Peacefield on drums

154 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 6:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
6:55
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-46, ride through bars 47-53, hi-hat through bars 54-84, ride through bars 85-114 and toms through bars 115-122, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47, 49 and 51, and 20 more places -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    47
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-------------|
RD |----x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Peacefield -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- N, C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 5-44 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and Part T -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through Part T and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Peacefield?

87 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 Peacefield 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 6:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 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 Peacefield?

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED