Especially in Michigan - RHCP · Red Hot Chili Peppers

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 3:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-23, 34-44 and 62-66, and 2 more places -- 43.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 103 BPM
ESPECIALLY IN MICHIGAN - RHCP · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 24, 32, 33, 45, 53 and 5 more.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 103 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 9 sections: 77 keep time, 11 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-23.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCIEANFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Especially in Michigan - RHCP?

103 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 Especially in Michigan - RHCP hard to play on drums?

64 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 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Especially in Michigan - RHCP?

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 24, 32, 33, 45, 53 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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