Hump de Bump - RHCP · Red Hot Chili Peppers

99 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-5, 8-13 and 16-17, and 8 more places -- 34.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 112 BPM
HUMP DE BUMP - RHCP · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 2, 6, 14, 18, 22, 23 and 30 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 22-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 9 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 6 sections: 55 keep time, 36 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-70.

CHORUS
PART E
PART R
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDCREFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hump de Bump - RHCP?

112 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 Hump de Bump - RHCP hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Hump de Bump - RHCP?

12 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 2, 6, 14, 18, 22, 23 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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