Californication (Very Easy Version) by Red Hot Chili Peppers · Ray M.

128 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 5:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-23, 41-59 and 101-105 -- 35.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 97 BPM
CALIFORNICATION (VERY EASY VERSION) BY RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

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

LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 125 · LANDS ON BAR 126
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 13 sections: 97 keep time, 8 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
6 groovesDBGS1S10+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Californication (Very Easy Version) by Red Hot Chili Peppers?

97 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 (Very Easy Version) by Red Hot Chili Peppers hard to play on drums?

41 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 (Very Easy Version) by Red Hot Chili Peppers?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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