I Could Have Lied · Red Hot Chili Peppers

61 bars, 3:29, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 81% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-32, 37-48 and 50-51, and 1 more place -- 80.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 70 BPM
I COULD HAVE LIED · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

61 bars across 5 sections: 53 keep time, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-32.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Could Have Lied?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is I Could Have Lied hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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