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Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers · Jokker

EXERCISE 10 OF 18
Join Chorus to Break (bars 38-40)
114 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, BREAK
PART B
CHORUS
BREAK
PART B
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDBS1S9S4+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers on drums

128 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 5:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-24, ride through bars 25-40, hi-hat through bars 41-60, ride through bars 61-97 and silence through bars 98-100, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-35, 37-38 and 61-71, and 4 more places -- 52.1% 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
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x-x--x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 24, 36, 60, 72, 96, 106 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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, B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 38-97 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers?

96 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 Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers hard to play on drums?

45 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 24, 36, 60, 72, 96, 106 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED