Dark Necessities · Red Hot Chili Peppers

110 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 4:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-35 and 38, and 12 more places -- 48.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 91 BPM
DARK NECESSITIES · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 36, 101, 104, 105, 108 and 109.

LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 101 · LANDS ON BAR 102
LOOP · 91 BPM
BARS 104-105 · LANDS ON BAR 106 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BARS 108-109 · LANDS ON BAR 110 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 6 sections: 89 keep time, 6 are fills, 2 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-75.

COUNT-IN
VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCFOS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dark Necessities?

91 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 Dark Necessities hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Dark Necessities?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 36, 101, 104, 105, 108 and 109.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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