Around The World · Red Hot Chili Peppers

95 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 30-32, and 3 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 96 BPM
AROUND THE WORLD · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 20, 37, 46 and 9 more.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BARS 7-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BARS 46-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 8 sections: 63 keep time, 15 are fills and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-78.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEIS1MS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Around The World?

96 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 Around The World hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Around The World?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 20, 37, 46 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED
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