Johnny, Kick A Hole In The Sky · Red Hot Chili Peppers

149 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 5:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
5:08
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 10-12 and 14-17, and 17 more places -- 49.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 116 BPM
JOHNNY, KICK A HOLE IN THE SKY · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 20, 30, 50, 60, 76, 86 and 3 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 10 sections: 127 keep time, 9 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 114-143.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Johnny, Kick A Hole In The Sky?

116 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 Johnny, Kick A Hole In The Sky hard to play on drums?

49 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 5:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Johnny, Kick A Hole In The Sky?

2 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 20, 30, 50, 60, 76, 86 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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