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Around The World · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 1 OF 35
Groove E -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Around The World on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-49, snare through bars 50-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-95.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 20, 37, 46 and 9 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 -- E, I -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 26-50 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 42-54 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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