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Blood Sugar Sex Magik · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 3 OF 37
Groove D -- Chorus
31 / 82 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blood Sugar Sex Magik on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
73/100

hi-hat through bars 2-22, ride through bars 23-31, hi-hat through bars 32-44 and ride through bars 45-82.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |-gxoxgxgxgxgxgxo|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
HF |x---x-----------|
Blood Sugar Sex Magik -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Verse and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and the Verse 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 46-59 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED