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Charlie · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 17 OF 28
Fill at bar 60
111 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS
PART O
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHODCS5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Charlie on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
70/100

hi-hat through bars 3-60, ride through bars 61-71, silence through bars 72-74, hi-hat through bars 75-95 and ride through bars 96-120.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 62-70 and 97-119 -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    62
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x--x-x--|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Charlie -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 6, 22, 51, 60 and 95.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- O -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 23-86 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Charlie?

105 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 Charlie hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Charlie?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 6, 22, 51, 60 and 95.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED