Dani California (Simplified) · Red Hot Chili Peppers

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

PopRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 25-31 and 33, and 7 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 96 BPM
DANI CALIFORNIA (SIMPLIFIED) · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 32, 37, 46, 54, 63 and 8 more.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 8 sections: 89 keep time, 14 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-20.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGBNKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dani California (Simplified)?

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 (Simplified) hard to play on drums?

50 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 25 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 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. 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 (Simplified)?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 32, 37, 46, 54, 63 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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