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

EXERCISE 17 OF 18
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Johnny, Kick A Hole In The Sky on drums

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

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
5:08
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, ride through bars 21-30, hi-hat through bars 31-50, ride through bars 51-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-76, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Johnny, Kick A Hole In The Sky -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- B, F -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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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.

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