(Peer) Pressure · APE TALE

65 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 1:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
1:46
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20 and 53-68 -- 35.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
(PEER) PRESSURE · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 34, 36 and 2 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 8 sections: 50 keep time, 8 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-68.

PART A
CHORUS
PART I
PART J
PART N
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHAJNI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is (Peer) Pressure?

140 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 (Peer) Pressure hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 1:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 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 (Peer) Pressure?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 34, 36 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED
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