Peggy Sue · blink-182

69 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:12
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-6, 16-17 and 19-21, and 7 more places -- 40.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
PEGGY SUE · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 15, 37, 49 and 61.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 8 sections: 55 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-28.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Peggy Sue?

125 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 Peggy Sue hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 8 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Peggy Sue?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 15, 37, 49 and 61.

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