Peephole · System of a Down

127 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 110 BPM, 3:28 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-36, 65-80 and 95-106, and 1 more place -- 36.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
PEEPHOLE · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 7, 8, 27, 28, 43, 44 and 9 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 94 · LANDS ON BAR 95
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 107-110 · LANDS ON BAR 111 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 13 sections: 87 keep time, 15 are fills, 2 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-80.

PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART S6
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGCEPS6+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Peephole?

110 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Peephole hard to play on drums?

64 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Peephole?

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 7, 8, 27, 28, 43, 44 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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