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Peacemaker · Green Day

EXERCISE 30 OF 31
Join Chorus 3 to Outro (bars 145-147)
142 / 157 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART J
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCGJS1S11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Peacemaker on drums

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.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-41, ride through bars 42-49, hi-hat through bars 50-89, ride through bars 90-97 and hi-hat through bars 98-106, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- C -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-61 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 89-101 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
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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