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Dark Necessities · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove C -- Verse
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COUNT-IN
VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCFOS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dark Necessities on drums

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.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
80/100

silence through bars 1-7 and hi-hat through bars 8-110.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-----------|
BD |x--x---x--x--xx-|
Dark Necessities -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Verse 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Verse 2 -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Verse 2 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through the Verse 2 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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