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Peg · Steely Dan

EXERCISE 3 OF 22
Groove A -- Part A
85 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Peg on drums

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

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

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
61/100

ride through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-42, ride through bars 43-51, hi-hat through bars 52-84 and ride through bars 85-116.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--xo--xo--xo--xx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
HF |----x---x-------|
Peg -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- D, I -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-84 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 35-77 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED