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Dani California · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 25 OF 50
Join Part L to Chorus 2 (bars 42-44)
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0 / 50 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dani California on drums

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.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
64/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-24, snare through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-46, snare through bars 47-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-74, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----xg-g-g--xg-g|
BD |x-x-------x-----|
Dani California -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- H, B -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 30-39 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-58 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 42-64 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part M and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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