Give It Away · Red Hot Chili Peppers

107 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 4:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-17 and 22-28, and 7 more places -- 48.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 92 BPM
GIVE IT AWAY · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 5, 21, 29, 37, 41 and 13 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 8 sections: 81 keep time and 19 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-17.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Give It Away?

92 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 Give It Away 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Give It Away?

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 5, 21, 29, 37, 41 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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