Peaches and creme · Dan the Man

86 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-38, 40-42 and 56-58, and 3 more places -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
PEACHES AND CREME · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 21, 23, 25, 26, 29, 30 and 22 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 13 sections: 32 keep time, 29 are fills, 4 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-14.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART K
PART H
CHORUS
PART K
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART A
OUTRO 2
7 groovesPHKS1A+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Peaches and creme?

120 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 Peaches and creme hard to play on drums?

45 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Peaches and creme?

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 21, 23, 25, 26, 29, 30 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED
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