I Could Die For You · Red Hot Chili Peppers

66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 3:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieFunk / SoulUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-29, 35-41 and 51-53, and 2 more places -- 51.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 84 BPM
I COULD DIE FOR YOU · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 17, 18, 30, 31, 32, 33 and 2 more.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BARS 30-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 5 sections: 36 keep time, 8 are fills, 7 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-65.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesELS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Could Die For You?

84 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 I Could Die For You 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 I Could Die For You?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 17, 18, 30, 31, 32, 33 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED
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