Californication (No bass) · Red Hot Chili Peppers

125 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 5:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-9, 12-19 and 38-45, and 2 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 96 BPM
CALIFORNICATION (NO BASS) · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 21, 33, 57, 69, 93, 103 and 2 more.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 93 · LANDS ON BAR 94

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 7 sections: 104 keep time, 8 are fills, 4 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-56.

CHORUS
PART G
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBJKGN+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Californication (No bass)?

96 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Californication (No bass) hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 5:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 12 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 (No bass)?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 21, 33, 57, 69, 93, 103 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 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 →