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I Could Die For You · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 4 OF 20
Groove L -- Outro
32 / 66 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesELS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Could Die For You on drums

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.

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
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-16, ride through bars 17-41, hi-hat through bars 42-47 and ride through bars 48-66.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
I Could Die For You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- E, Q -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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