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Dani California - RHCP · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 2 OF 43
Groove A -- Part A
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PART A
CHORUS
PART A
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dani California - RHCP on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
76/100

hi-hat through bars 1-23, snare through bars 24-31, hi-hat through bars 32-45, snare through bars 46-53, hi-hat through bars 54-73 and snare through bars 74-91, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----xg-x-g--xg-g|
BD |x-x-------x-----|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Dani California - RHCP -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A, C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 44-74 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 67-92 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 88-101 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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