Peg · Steely Dan

116 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-32, 39-42 and 52-76 -- 45.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 117 BPM
PEG · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 51.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 8 sections: 105 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-116.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDIAFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Peg?

117 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 Peg hard to play on drums?

61 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 51.

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