← SONGS

Sickle and Peace · Mastodon

EXERCISE 16 OF 103
Groove E
97 / 201 BARS COVERED
0 / 103 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
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
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 29
LAND · 29
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sickle and Peace on drums

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.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
201
LENGTH
5:52
DIFFICULTY
77/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, ride through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-44, snare through bars 45-53, toms through bars 54-55 and snare through bars 56-57, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1
    1.......2.......3.......4...
CC |x---------------------------|
HH |----x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----x-----x-----|
Sickle and Peace -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 73 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part P -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 21-87 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

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