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Give It Away · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 7 OF 27
Groove D -- Part D
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CHORUS
PART D
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
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Give It Away on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
62/100

snare through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-107.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- B -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 14-30 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 42-107 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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