Sickle and Peace · Mastodon

201 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 110 BPM, 5:52 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Progressive90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
201
LENGTH
5:52
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9, and 10 more places -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
SICKLE AND PEACE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

29 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 4, 16, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 63 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 21-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

25 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

201 bars across 18 sections: 114 keep time, 69 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-15.

PART A
PART A
PART P
PART A
PART P
CHORUS
PART AM
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
11 groovesABAPAMH+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sickle and Peace?

110 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Sickle and Peace hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

201 bars, about 5:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 23 sittings, about 27 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 Sickle and Peace?

29 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 4, 16, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 63 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 201 BARS ANALYSED
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