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Blackeyed Blonde · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 1 OF 51
Groove H -- Part H
0 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blackeyed Blonde on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 1-50, silence through bars 51-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-87.

The beat

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.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxo-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x---x-xx-----|
Blackeyed Blonde -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part N -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part N -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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