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.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

110 BPM

TIME

3/4

BARS

127

LENGTH

3:28

DIFFICULTY

64/100

silence through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-20, ride through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-37 and silence through bars 38-42, and 6 more changes after that.

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.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |------x--x--|
BD |x----x--x-x-|

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

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- G, C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. Through Part C and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
4. Bars 19-58 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
5. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
7. Bars 87-93 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.