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Blackeyed Blonde (Freaky Styley) · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 5 OF 43
Groove D
20 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT
VERSE
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART S5
PART Z
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFACKZA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blackeyed Blonde (Freaky Styley) on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 2:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
69/100

hi-hat through bars 1-49, silence through bars 50-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-87.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 14-15 and 17-19, and 4 more places -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxx-xxxxxxx-xo-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x---x-xx-----|
Blackeyed Blonde (Freaky Styley) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 20, 27, 28, 36, 40 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Verse -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Verse and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part K -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Blackeyed Blonde (Freaky Styley)?

134 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 Blackeyed Blonde (Freaky Styley) hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 14 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Blackeyed Blonde (Freaky Styley)?

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 20, 27, 28, 36, 40 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED