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Aquatic Mouth Dance · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove D -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDUXSC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Aquatic Mouth Dance on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-81, ride through bars 82-97, hi-hat through bars 98-101 and ride through bars 102-105.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part S and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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