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Eddie · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 1 OF 51
Groove J -- Chorus 2
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PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesJBAAACS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eddie on drums

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.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
5:41
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 3-82, kick and crashes through bars 83-90, ride through bars 91-97, hi-hat through bars 98-130, ride through bars 131-192 and kick and crashes through bars 193-194, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- J, AA -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-102 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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