Funky Monks · Red Hot Chili Peppers

122 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 5:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-23, 34-48 and 75-89 -- 41.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 88 BPM
FUNKY MONKS · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 32, 33, 49, 64, 65 and 4 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 64-66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 6 sections: 102 keep time, 10 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-23.

CHORUS
PART J
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBEJNS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Funky Monks?

88 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 Funky Monks hard to play on drums?

62 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 5:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 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 Funky Monks?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 32, 33, 49, 64, 65 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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