Eddie · Red Hot Chili Peppers

199 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
5:41
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 39-41 and 43-45, and 13 more places -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
EDDIE · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 18, 34, 50, 66, 82, 92 and 21 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

199 bars across 7 sections: 151 keep time, 30 are fills, 9 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-17.

PART B
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesJBAAACS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Eddie?

140 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 Eddie hard to play on drums?

63 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

199 bars, about 5:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 Eddie?

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 18, 34, 50, 66, 82, 92 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 199 BARS ANALYSED
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