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Go Robot · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBEGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Go Robot on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
46/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-93, snare through bars 94-97 and hi-hat through bars 98-141.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-137 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 86-94 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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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