Peacemaker · Green Day

157 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-24 and 26-40, and 5 more places -- 55.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 200 BPM
PEACEMAKER · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 5, 9, 25, 41, 48, 49 and 10 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 12 sections: 117 keep time, 17 are fills, 5 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-24.

CHORUS
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART J
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCGJS1S11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Peacemaker?

200 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 Peacemaker hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 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 Peacemaker?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 5, 9, 25, 41, 48, 49 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED
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