Dani California - RHCP · Red Hot Chili Peppers

111 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 4:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-30, 46-52 and 74-80, and 1 more place -- 25.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 96 BPM
DANI CALIFORNIA - RHCP · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 2, 14, 21, 22, 23, 31 and 29 more.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BARS 21-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BARS 69-73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 9 sections: 65 keep time, 35 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-13.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHAVQDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dani California - RHCP?

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 - RHCP hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 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 Dani California - RHCP?

10 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 2, 14, 21, 22, 23, 31 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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