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Breaking The Girl · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 13 OF 24
Fill at bar 62 (a small one)
105 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Breaking The Girl on drums

127 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 89 BPM, 4:17 of playing on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
97/100

silence through bars 1-4 and ride through bars 5-127.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 48 more places -- 41.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1...........2...........3...........
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----------|
SD |---------x--------x-------x---------|
T1 |----------------------------x-x-----|
T2 |--------------------------------x-x-|
BD |x--------------x--------x-----------|
HF |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Breaking The Girl -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 13, 54, 62 and 94.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-70 -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Breaking The Girl?

89 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Breaking The Girl hard to play on drums?

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 9 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Breaking The Girl?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 13, 54, 62 and 94.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED