Blackeyed Blonde · Red Hot Chili Peppers

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

Alternative / IndieFunk / Soul120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 31 and 36, and 1 more place -- 8.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BLACKEYED BLONDE · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 21, 28, 29 and 16 more.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 7-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 28-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 9 sections: 46 keep time, 22 are fills, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 78-86.

PART A
PART F
PART H
PART N
CHORUS
PART S6
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesUABNAS6+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blackeyed Blonde?

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 hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 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 41 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Blackeyed Blonde?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 21, 28, 29 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED
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