Dani California · Red Hot Chili Peppers

112 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 4:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 45 and 47-53, and 3 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 96 BPM
DANI CALIFORNIA · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 3, 15, 22, 23, 24, 32 and 28 more.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BARS 22-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 9 sections: 68 keep time, 34 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-14.

PART B
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHBUML+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dani California?

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 Dani California hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 Dani California?

11 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 3, 15, 22, 23, 24, 32 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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