Californication (Easy - No Ghost Notes - No Semiquaver) · Red Hot Chili Peppers

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

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-13, 15-23 and 41-49, and 2 more places -- 34.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 96 BPM
CALIFORNICATION (EASY - NO GHOST NOTES - NO SEMIQUAVER) · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 36, 60, 72, 76, 96 and 4 more.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 13 sections: 96 keep time, 10 are fills, 4 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-23.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
7 groovesEBHFS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Californication (Easy - No Ghost Notes - No Semiquaver)?

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 (Easy - No Ghost Notes - No Semiquaver) hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 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 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Californication (Easy - No Ghost Notes - No Semiquaver)?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 36, 60, 72, 76, 96 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Red Hot Chili Peppers drum parts

EVERY RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →