Californication · Red Hot Chili Peppers

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

Alternative / IndieFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 15-22 and 41-48, 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 · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 23, 24, 32, 36, 59, 60 and 19 more.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BARS 74-76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 7 sections: 88 keep time, 25 are fills, 4 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-58.

CHORUS
PART J
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBJGS1S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Californication?

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 hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 47 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 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Californication?

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 23, 24, 32, 36, 59, 60 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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