Go Robot · Red Hot Chili Peppers

141 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopFunk / Soul120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 66% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-40, 42 and 44, and 24 more places -- 66% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 130 BPM
GO ROBOT · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 41, 73 and 113.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 5 sections: 130 keep time and 3 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-40.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBEGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Go Robot?

130 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 Go Robot hard to play on drums?

46 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Go Robot?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 41, 73 and 113.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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