Blood Sugar Sex Magik · Red Hot Chili Peppers

82 bars, 4:22, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-21 and 33-43 -- 37% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BLOOD SUGAR SEX MAGIK · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 44 and 12 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 8 sections: 53 keep time, 19 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-21.

VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBDRGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blood Sugar Sex Magik?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Blood Sugar Sex Magik hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Blood Sugar Sex Magik?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 44 and 12 more.

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