Aquatic Mouth Dance · Red Hot Chili Peppers

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 9-11 and 14-19, and 6 more places -- 53.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
AQUATIC MOUTH DANCE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 28, 43, 44 and 12 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 7 sections: 77 keep time, 18 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-59.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDUXSC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Aquatic Mouth Dance?

100 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 Aquatic Mouth Dance hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, 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 Aquatic Mouth Dance?

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 28, 43, 44 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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