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Californication (No bass) · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 8 OF 36
Groove H
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CHORUS
PART G
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBJKGN+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Californication (No bass) on drums

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.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
70/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-21, ride through bars 22-37, hi-hat through bars 38-57, ride through bars 58-94 and silence through bars 95-97, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    3
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-g---g---g-----x-g---gg|
BD |x-------------------x-----------|
Californication (No bass) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 33-116 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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