Califórnica · La Gusana Ciega

118 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:29 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 8, and 47 more places -- 42.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
CALIFÓRNICA · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 117 and 118.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 117-118 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 4 sections: 112 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-80.

PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesDGCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Califórnica?

135 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 Califórnica hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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 Califórnica?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 117 and 118.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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