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Califórnica · La Gusana Ciega

Califórnica · La Gusana Ciega
EXERCISE 3 OF 18
Groove B
80 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesDGCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Califórnica on drums

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.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
50/100

toms through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-118.

The beat

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.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Califórnica -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- D, C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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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